Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious by Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
By Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
Burstein reads “lost” yet as soon as enormously renowned non secular novels—for instance, by way of Elizabeth Rundle Charles, woman Georgiana Fullerton, and Emily Sarah Holt—against the works of such now-canonical figures as Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, whereas additionally drawing on fabric from modern sermons, histories, and periodicals. Burstein demonstrates how those novels, which popularized Christian visions of switch for a mass readership, name into query our assumptions concerning the nineteenth-century historic novel. furthermore, her learn and her conceptual frameworks have the capability to persuade broader paradigms in Victorian experiences and novel criticism.
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