 | Theology and the Victorian Novel Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; Christianity in literature; Theology in literature; Religious issues played a prominent role in Victorian England and had a profound influence on the culture of that period. In Theology and the Victorian Novel, J. Russell Perkin shows that even the apparently secular world of the realist novel is shaped by the theological debates of its time. Perkin J. Russell : J. Russell Perkin is professor of English at Saint Mary's University.J. Russell Perkin is professor of English, Saint Mary's University, and the author of A Reception-History of George Eliot's Fiction. |
