Victorian Doubt: Literary and Cultural Discourses

by Lance St. John Butler

Lance Butler claims that Victorian language was too immersed in Christianity for the modern reader to deduce a simple story about "loss of faith" in Victorian culture. At the same time, the forces that gave rise to doubt were sufficiently strong to mean that Victorian language also contained elements that disturbed faith. Thus the poets, novelists, and sages of the period were structuring a discourse that simultaneously relied on religion and undermined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0389209384
• ISBN13: 9780389209386
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"