Anxiety about adoring humans more than God frequently overshadows and sometimes derails the progress of romance in Victorian novels. By probing this anxiety and its narrative effects, Strange Gods uncovers how a central Protestant belief exerts its influence over stories about love and marriage.
Anxiety about adoring humans more than God frequently overshadows and sometimes derails the progress of romance in Victorian novels. By probing this anxiety and its narrative effects, Strange Gods uncovers how a central Protestant belief exerts its influence over stories about love and marriage.
Timothy L. Carens is Professor of English at the College of Charleston where he teaches classes on nineteenth-century literature and culture. He is author of Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel and his essays have appeared in Dickens Studies Annual, Studies in English Literature, College English, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
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Chapter 1 Introduction: "Idolatry of the Heart" Chapter 2 Breaking the Idol of the Marriage Plot in Yeast and Villette Chapter 3 Idolatrous Reading in The Doctor's Wife Chapter 4 Following the Sun God in Middlemarch Chapter 5 Worshipping Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter 6 New Goddesses: Carving Images in The Well-Beloved
Chapter 1 Introduction: "Idolatry of the Heart" Chapter 2 Breaking the Idol of the Marriage Plot in Yeast and Villette Chapter 3 Idolatrous Reading in The Doctor's Wife Chapter 4 Following the Sun God in Middlemarch Chapter 5 Worshipping Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter 6 New Goddesses: Carving Images in The Well-Beloved
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