Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula

by Christopher Herbert

Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Christopher Herbert begins by retrieving from near oblivion a rich anti-Evangelical polemical literature in which the great religious revival, often lauded in later scholarship as a "moral revolution," is depicted as an evil conspiracy centered on the attempted dismantling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081394340X
• ISBN13: 9780813943404
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"