A Novel Hope? (eBook)

Universal Salvation, the Victorian Sentiment, and the Role of the Novel

Bernard Marcus Woodley (Autor)

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2025
418 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-3852-2710-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Christians today are often struggling with many of the same theological problems that Victorians were, especially regarding hell and the God of love. One answer to these questions found in nineteenth-century Britain was the seemingly surprising reappearance of the early Christian eschatological theory of universalism, the belief that all of humanity will be saved. Even though this re-emergence has already been acknowledged by scholars of Victorianism, its extent has been widely underestimated. This book then aims to describe why universalism became an increasingly viable option in a time of growing religious doubt, and especially how it established itself in and with the help of the century's fiction, not only in the more overtly universalist novels of Gaskell and Anne Bronte, but also across works ranging from Dickens, Gissing, Linton, and Oliphant, all the way to Ward and Wells.

Autor

Bernard Marcus Woodley taught Victorian literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, while researching for his PhD. He now works in High School education.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.6.2025
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: 19th century • A Novel Hope? • Bernard Marcus Woodley • Christian Church • Christian Churches • Christianity • Denominations • England • English fiction • Eschatology • Europe • European History • Great Britain • groups • hell • History • History and Criticism • History of doctrines • History of Religion • Literary criticism • Literature: history and criticism • Novel • Religion • Religion and beliefs • Salvation • subjects and themes • Theology • Universal • Universalism • Victorian Era (1837-1901) • Victorianism
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3852-2710-5 / 9798385227105