Victorian Conversion Narratives and Reading Communities. Emily Walker Heady

By Emily Walker Heady and Professor Emily Walker Heady

Book Overview

Reading canonical authors such as John Henry Newman, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bront , George Eliot and Oscar Wilde through a dual lens of literary history and post-liberal theology, Emily Walker Heady suggests that Victorian authors discuss conversion experiences in the context of the modes in which they are narrated. Thus, conversion narratives became a form of literary criticism, while literary conventions functioned as a means of discussing the nature of conversion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138272345
• ISBN13: 9781138272347
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"