Victorian Religious Discourse: New Directions in Criticism

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Framing Victorian Religious Discourse: An Introduction......Page 12
Part I The Higher-Critical Debate......Page 36
1 The Victorian Radicals: Time, Typology, and Ontology in Hopkins, Pusey, and Müller......Page 38
2 \"Kill[ing] Our Souls with Literalism\": Reading Essays and Reviews......Page 62
3 Skeptical Women v. Honest Men v. Good Old Boys: Gender Conflict in the High Victorian Religion Wars......Page 94
4 \"Decomposing\" Texts: Browning\'s Poetics and Higher-Critical Parody......Page 128
5 \"Our King Back, Oh, Upon English Souls!\": Swinburne, Hopkins, and the Politics of Religion......Page 142
Part II Religion And The Aesthetic Imagination......Page 166
6 Hearing Adventure: Giuseppe Caponsacchi, Browning\'s \"Hollow Rock\"......Page 168
7 Faith, Romance, and Imagination: Newman the Storyteller......Page 186
8 A \"Thousand Solaces\" for the Modern Spirit: Walter Pater\'s Religious Discourse......Page 200
9 \"Amen in a Wrong Place\": Charles Dickens Imagines the Victorian Church......Page 216
10 \"Poetry is Where God is\": The Importance of Christian Faith and Theology in Elizabeth Barrett Browning\'s Life and Work......Page 246
References......Page 264
B......Page 284
D......Page 285
H......Page 286
N......Page 287
S......Page 288
Z......Page 289