Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how the organizing force of the Anglican Church and the figure of the Anglican clergyman were used to interrogate social, legal, and historical developments in nineteenth-century fiction. The project outlines how authors reacted to events such as Pluralism reform, the opening of training schools for clergy, and the Oxford Movement. There was a growing importance of institutions (including new physical buildings and Anglican reform movements). Further, the clergy, pushed by the increased expectation to modernize and professionalize, became a specialist career, with raised training and performance requirements. As a result of these internal changes, we find the Anglican Church establishment in a state of flux across the nineteenth century: working to adapt itself to a new normal where Anglicanism as the dominant organizing force in people's lives could no longer be taken for granted.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D. in English

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Cason, Rachel Elizabeth

Contributors dc:contributor

• Daniel Stout
• Jarod H. Roll
• Jason D. Solinger

• Anglicanism
• Clergy
• Institution
• Novel
• Reform
• Victorian
• English Language and Literature

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1560

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2559