The Secular Pilgrims of Victorian Fiction: The Novel as Book of Life

by Barry V. Qualls

This book examines the attempts of four great Victorians to write what amounted to latter-day 'Pilgrim's Progresses'. Writing in and for an age whose spiritual needs and assumptions differed utterly from those of Bunyan, they produced very different kinds of books from his - but books which still owed as much to the puritan tradition of Pilgrim's Progress and Quarles Emblems, of spiritual biography and the typological reading of scripture, as to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521272017
• ISBN13: 9780521272018
• Release Date: November 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"