Yet alive?
Subtitle: Methodists in British fiction since 1890
By: by David Dickinson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781443890953
Subjects: Methodism in literature
Description: Reading the novels of George Eliot, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Barry Unsworth, and others, as a Methodist, David Dickinson offers a colourful picture of Methodists in British fiction since the close of the nineteenth century. In the first century and a half of the denominations influence, many novels treated Methodist themes, settings and characters and several authors were themselves Methodist but as Methodism declined, its appearances in modern English literature diminished. Nevertheless, it retains a strong, if paradoxical, presence in popular imagination, fed in part by its fictional depiction. Yet Alive? argues that, despite, or perhaps because of, the process of secularisation, novels depicting Methodists play an important role in literatures ongoing exploration of spiritual, religious and theological themes, and that Methodists have much to learn from the way authors see them. -- ‡c From Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-145) and index.
Table of contents: title: Our high calling's glorious hope; title: The millennial year rushes on to our view; title: On mercy's wings I swiftly fly; title: Enough for evermore; title: O for a trumpet voice on all the world to call; title: Conclusion : to serve the present age.