Your own personal Jesus : individualized religious sectarianism in the mid-victorian novel.

This Dissertation explores four novels from the mid-nineteenth century, two of which are by canonical authors, Charles Dickens and George Eliot; two not as well known, Charles Kingsley and Charlotte Yonge. The nineteenth century, in particular the century's central decades, was a time of great religious debate and division. Theological and popular elements within the Anglican Church sought to pull it in two different directions: The one towards the rights and practices of the Roman (Catholic) Church, the other towards the 'Bibliocentric' ideals of the Reformation. I argue that each of the novelists represented in this dissertation speaks to one of four divisions occurring within the Church at this period: High-Church Anglo-Catholicism (Charlotte Yonge), Broad-Church Christian Socialism (Charles Kingsley), Low-Church Evangelicalism (George Eliot), and 'No-Church' Protestant Dissent (Charles Dickens).

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Grantor

Baylor University.

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Dickinson, Christian S., 1983-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Pond, Kristen A.

• Anglican Church.
• Victorian novel.
• Charles Dickens.
• George Eliot.
• Charles Kingsley.
• Charlotte Yonge.

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Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/2104/10511

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oai:baylor-ir.tdl.org:2104/10511