Perplext in Faith
Subtitle: Essays on Victorian Beliefs and Doubts
By: edited by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre and Julie Melnyk
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781443868143
Subjects: Faith; History of doctrines; Doctrinal Theology; History; Religion; Religious life and customs
Notes: Contains index and bibliographical reference.
Table of contents: title: "All the strange facts": Alfred Russel Wallace's Spiritualism and Evolutionary Thought / Thomas Prasch; title: Armageddon at Sebastopol: The Crimean War and Biblical Prophecy in Mid-Victorian Britain / Eric Michael Reisenauer; title: Reforming Society: Missionary and Bands of Hope Hymns for Children / Alisa Clapp-Itnyre; title: Faith and the Feminine in Victorian Christianity / Julie Melnyk; title: Jewish Angel in the House: Domesticity and Feminine Identity in Grace Aguilar's The Women of Israel / Lindsay Dearinger; title: "Public Acts of Faith and Devotion": Pilgrimages in Late Nineteenth-Century England and Scotland / Katherine Haldane Grenier; title: Variations on the Grand Tour: Musical Seduction and Catholic Communion in the Italian Travel Diaries of Lady Anne Noel Blunt, 1853-4 / Michelle Meinhart; title: For Isis and England: The Golden Dawn as a Social Network / Sharon E. Cogdill; title: Wrestling with their Father's Faith: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Respond to Patrick Bronte's Christianity / Christine A. Colon; title: Dickens's The Life of Our Lord and the Problem of Jesus / Jessica Ann Hughes; title: Mode of Belief or Evidence of Doubt? George Eliot and the "Religion of Favourable Chance" / Robert C. Koepp.