The English Cult of Literature
Subtitle: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880 (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: January 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780813925714
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; English literature; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Religion and literature; Religion in literature
Description: "Indebted to recent findings of book history and newer historiographies at odds with conventional secularization theory, this work makes an interdisciplinary contribution to revising the existing models for understanding change in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."--Jacket.