Victorian Religious Discourse: New Directions in Criticism

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Framing Victorian Religious Discourse: An Introduction....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
The Victorian Radicals: Time, Typology, and Ontology in Hopkins, Pusey, and Müller....Pages 27-49
“Kill[ing]Our Souls with Literalism”: Reading Essays and Reviews ....Pages 51-81
 Skeptical Women V. Honest Men V. Good Old Boys: Gender Conflict in the High Victorian Religion Wars....Pages 83-116
“Decomposing” Texts: Browning’s Poetics and Higher-Critical Parody....Pages 117-129
“Our King Back, Oh, Upon English Souls!”: Swinburne, Hopkins, and the Politics of Religion....Pages 131-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Hearing Adventure: Giuseppe Caponsacchi, Browning’s “Hollow Rock”....Pages 157-173
Faith, Romance, and Imagination: Newman the Storyteller....Pages 175-187
A “Thousand Solaces” for the Modern Spirit: Walter Pater’s Religious Discourse....Pages 189-204
“Amen in a Wrong Place”: Charles Dickens Imagines the Victorian Church....Pages 205-234
“Poetry is Where God is”: The Importance of Christian Faith and Theology in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Life and Work....Pages 235-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-278