Emily Walker Heady

Victorian Conversion Narratives and Reading Communities (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Reading canonical authors such as John Henry Newman, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317002222
• Artikelnr.: 44864177

Autorenporträt

Emily W. Heady is Dean of the College of General Studies and Professor of English at Liberty University, USA. Her recent work has appeared in The Journal of Narrative Theory, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and Prose Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
How a capitalist converts: Dickens's theology and the realism of Dombey and Son
'Must I render an account?': the ethics of genre in Charlotte BrontÃ''s Villette
Gambling on conversion: the problem of relativism in Daniel Deronda
To sum up, to judge: the aesthetics of truth in Heart of Darkness
The afterlife of Oscar Wilde's conversion, or, what self-consciously literary college students say on Facebook
Works cited
Index.