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Shaping Belief: Culture, Politics, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writing

Victoria Morgan and Clare Williams

Abstract

This book explores how the energy of belief came to manifest itself in nineteenth–century literature. This manifestation was evident as much in expressions of newly formed personal relations to ideas, as in the appropriation of religious discourse in writing of the period. By re–visioning the place of belief in nineteenth–century writing this collection provides forays into current thinking, both on the position occupied by belief within nineteenth–century literary studies, and within contemporary culture itself.

Keywords: ideas, religious discourse, literary studies, culture, belief, nineteenth–century literature

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2008 Print ISBN-13: 9781846311369
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846315688

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Victoria Morgan, editor

Clare Williams, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Allegiance: A Sermon1

Introduction: Re-visioning Belief in Nineteenth-Century Writing

I. Religious Discourse: Transmission and Appropriation

1. Tell the Story: Re-imagining Victorian Conversion Narratives

Andrew Tate

2. ‘Recognizing Fellow-Creatures’: F.D. Maurice, Octavia Hill, Josephine Butler

Hester Jones

3. ‘Filthy Lucre’: Christianity, Commerce and the Female Bodily Economy in Seamstress Narratives of the 1840s*

Ella Dzelzainis

4. Isaiah and Ezekiel – But What about Charley? An Essay on ‘Wanting to Believe’*

Philip Davis

II. Shaping Subjectivities: Belief, Aesthetics and Space

5. ‘Repairing Everywhere without Design’? Industry, Revery and Relation in Emily Dickinson's Bee Imagery

Victoria Morgan

6. Poetry, Poetic Perception, and Emerson's Spiritual Affirmations

David M. Robinson

7. Sacrificial Exchange and the Gothic Double in Melmoth the Wanderer and The Picture of Dorian Gray

Alison Milbank

8. Church Architecture, Tractarian Poetry and the Forms of Faith Kirstie Blair

Kirstie Blair

III. Mediating Culture: Inscribing Democracy, Class and Social Identity

9. Caricature and Social Change 1820–1840: The March of Intellect Revisited

Brian Maidment

10. Feeling ‘Ghostlike’: Carlyle and his Exposure to the ‘Condition-of-England-Question’

Clare Williams

11. ‘Getting Down into the Masses’: Dickens, Journalism and the Personal Mode

Juliet John

12. ‘Scrupulously Empty Phrases’ and the Silent Work of Matthew Arnold: Belief in the Action of Writing

Kate Campbell

End Matter

Index