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Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature
Exotic, corrupt, and dangerous, Roman Catholicism functioned in the popular Victorian imagination as a highly sensationalized and implacably anti-English enemy. Maureen Moran’s lively study considers a wide range of key authors—including Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot, as well as a number of non-canonical writers—to give a detailed account of the cultural tensions between Catholics and Protestants. Moran shows that rather than representing a traditional religious schism, the demonizing of Catholics resulted from secular fears over crime, sex, and violence.
The Oxford Movement
An international team of authors explores the impact of the Oxford Movement on the Church and religious life beyond England.
The Great German Mystics
Fourteenth-century Germany produced three authors — Eckhart, Tauler, and Suso — who wrote numerous sermons, tracts, and anecdotes in the vernacular rather than Latin. This survey chronicles their lives, critiques their works, and discusses their influence on the development of Christian spiritual expression along with that of their contemporaries, the Friends of God and the Franciscan friars.
Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature
Offering readings of nineteenth-century travel narratives, works by Tractarians, the early writings of Charles Kingsley, and the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, Devon Fisher examines representations of Roman Catholic saints in Victorian literature to assess both the relationship between conservative thought and liberalism and the emergence of secular culture during the period. The run-up to Victoria's coronation witnessed a series of controversial liberal reforms. While many early Victorians considered the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts (1828), the granting of civil rights to Roman Catholics (1829), and the extension of the franchise (1832) significant advances, for others these three ac...
Nourishing Mission
Written by a widely-travelled bishop, theologian and poet, these 16 evangelical, catholic and ecumenical articles, published over 34 years, provide illumination with imagination, interweaving art, poetry and archives with theology, history and spirituality.
The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age
Michael Wheeler is a leading authority on the Victorian age. His exploration of 1845 transforms our understanding of the period.
The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901
This Handbook accesses historical, theological, rhetorical, literary and linguistic studies to demonstrate the interdisciplinary strength of the field of sermon studies and to show the centrality of sermons to private and public life in this 'golden age' of the British sermon.
