Roman Catholic saints and early Victorian literature : conservatism, liberalism, and the emergence of secular culture /
Fisher, Devon.
Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The rise of the individual -- Secularism -- Ambiguities -- The liberalism of Victorian conservatism -- Foreign saints. Defining travel; Reclaiming Italy; Resonances -- Catholic saints. The crisis over private judgment; Publication of the lives; Lives of the English saints; The aftermath : development and Catholicism -- Protestant saints. The saint's tragedy and Protestant individualism; Yeast and Alton Locke; The saints, sacramental history, and Kingsley's social vision; The problem of authority; Finishing his own history; Civic saints. Private memory and mediation; The remains of Arthur Hallam; "Chaff and draff, much better burnt"; The canonization of Arthur Hallam; Spurring the imitative will; From Hallam to Hallam -- Conclusion.
Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Anglo-Catholicism in literature.
English literature
Saints in literature.
Religion and literature
Protestantism and literature
Secularism