Introduction : the Victorian book of life -- The implied theology of Vanity fair -- Charlotte Bronte·'s Shirley as a novel of religious controversy -- Gleams from a brighter world : Charlotte Mary Yonge's tractarian poetics -- From St. Paul to Pecksniff : Trollope's Bertrams and Arnold's god -- Feeling's a sort o'knowledge : George Eliot's religion of humanity -- Thomas Hardy's apocryphal gospels -- Literature and dogma : Mary August Ward's Robert Elsmere and Walter Pater's Marius the epicurean
Summary
Religious issues played a prominent role in Victorian England and had a profound influence on the culture of that period. In Theology and the Victorian Novel, J. Russell Perkin shows that even the apparently secular world of the realist novel is shaped by the theological debates of its time
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and index
