Roman Catholic saints and early Victorian literature
Subtitle: conservatism, liberalism, and the emergence of secular culture
By: by Devon Fisher
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781409431145; 9781409431152
Subjects: History; English literature; Knowledge; Saints in literature; Religion and literature; History and criticism; Secularism; Hagiography; Religion; Criticism and interpretation; Protestantism and literature; Anglo-Catholicism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The rise of the individual; title: Secularism; title: Ambiguities; title: The liberalism of Victorian conservatism; title: Foreign saints.  Defining travel; Reclaiming Italy; Resonances; title: Catholic saints. The crisis over private judgment; Publication of the lives; Lives of the English saints; The aftermath : development and Catholicism; title: 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; title: Conclusion.