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  1. Strange gods
    love and idolatry in the Victorian novel
    Author: Carens, Timothy L.
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    Introduction: "Idolatry of the Heart" -- Breaking the Idol of the Marriage Plot in Yeast and Villette -- Idolatrous Reading in The Doctor's Wife -- Following the Sun God in Middlemarch -- Worshipping Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray -- New... more

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    Introduction: "Idolatry of the Heart" -- Breaking the Idol of the Marriage Plot in Yeast and Villette -- Idolatrous Reading in The Doctor's Wife -- Following the Sun God in Middlemarch -- Worshipping Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray -- New Goddesses: Carving Images in The Well-Beloved. "Despite frequent declarations of the sanctity of love and marriage, British Protestant culture nurtured the fear that human affection might easily slip into idolatry. Throughout the nineteenth-century, theological essays, sermons, hymns, and didactic fiction and poetry urged the faithful to maintain a constant watch over their hearts, lest they become engrossed by human love, guilty of worshipping the creature rather than the Creator. Strange Gods: Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel traces through popular fiction the concerns produced in Protestant culture by this broad interpretation of idolatry. In chapters focusing on Charles Kingsley and Charlotte Brontë, Mary Elizabeth Brandon, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Hardy, this volume shows that even supposedly secular novels obsessively reenact an ideological clash between Protestant faith and human love. Anxiety about adoring humans more than God frequently overshadows and sometimes derails the progress of romance in Victorian novels. By probing this anxiety and its narrative effects, Strange Gods uncovers how a central Protestant belief exerts its influence over stories about love and marriage"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367525095; 9780367525125
    Series: Among the Victorians and modernists
    Subjects: English fiction; Love in literature; Idolatry in literature; Protestantism in literature; Literary criticism
    Scope: volumes cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Strange Gods
    Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel
    Author: Carens, Timothy L.
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Ltd, London

    Anxiety about adoring humans more than God frequently overshadows and sometimes derails the progress of romance in Victorian novels. By probing this anxiety and its narrative effects, Strange Gods uncovers how a central Protestant belief exerts its... more

     

    Anxiety about adoring humans more than God frequently overshadows and sometimes derails the progress of romance in Victorian novels. By probing this anxiety and its narrative effects, Strange Gods uncovers how a central Protestant belief exerts its influence over stories about love and marriage

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367525125
    Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists
    Subjects: LIT024040; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900; Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren; RELIGION / General; Religion, allgemein; Religion: general
    Scope: 200 Seiten
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: "Idolatry of the Heart"Chapter 2 Breaking the Idol of the Marriage Plot in Yeast and VilletteChapter 3 Idolatrous Reading in The Doctor s WifeChapter 4 Following the Sun God in MiddlemarchChapter 5 Worshipping Beauty in The Picture of Dorian GrayChapter 6 New Goddesses: Carving Images in The Well-Beloved