Shaping Belief

Culture, Politics, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writing

Edited by Victoria Morgan and Clare Williams

Shaping Belief
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Edited by Victoria Morgan and Clare Williams

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256 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2008
Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts and Studies
Cloth $85.00 ISBN: 9781846311369 Published June 2008 For sale in North America only
Nineteenth-century writing possesses a powerful diversity of voices that makes the period as distinctive to us today as it was in the day of Wordsworth, Tolstoy, Dickinson, Chekov, and Poe. The wide variety of ways in which different beliefs and voices could be heard, as well as the equally varying and competing versions of unity that underpinned the period’s belief systems all coalesced to form a tension vital to the writing of the period. In Shaping Belief, a wide range of innovative critical essays, situated within contemporary theoretical debates, explore how the energy of belief came to manifest itself in order to rethink the place of belief in nineteenth-century writing, while providing an important foray into both current thinking on literary studies of this period and contemporary culture as well.
Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

 

Allegiance: A Sermon

Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

 

Introduction: Re-visioning Belief in Nineteenth-Century Writing

Victoria Morgan and Clare Williams

 

I.     Religious Discourse: Transmission and Appropriation

 

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

Andrew Tate

 

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

Hester Jones

 

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

Ella Dzelzainis

 

  1. Isaiah and Ezekiel— But What about Charley? An Essay on ‘Wanting to Believe’

Philip Davis

 

II.  Shaping Subjectivities: Belief, Aesthetics and  Space

 

  1. ‘Repairing Everywhere without Design’? Industry, Revery and Religion in Emily Dickinson’s Bee Imagery

Victoria Morgan

 

  1. Poetry, Poetic Perception and Emerson’s Spiritual Affirmations

David M. Robinson

 

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

Alison Milbank

 

  1. Church Architecture, Tractarian Poetry and the Forms of Faith

Kirstie Blair

 

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

 

  1. Caricature and Social Change 1820-1840: The March of Intellect Revisited

Brian Maidment

 

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

Clare Williams

 

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

Juliet John

 

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

Kate Campbell

 

Index

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