Introduction
1: Dissent: Wesley to Blake
2: Unitarianism: Priestley to Gaskell
3: The Oxford Movement: Wordsworth to Hopkins
4: Evangelicalism: Brontë to Eliot
5: Secularization: Dickens to Hardy
6: Catholicism and Mysticism: Husymans to Chesterton
Emma Mason is a Lecturer in the Department of English and
Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is
the author of Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (2005), and
numerous articles on the relationship between religion and poetry
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is also a coeditor
of two forthcoming volumes on biblical hermeneutics: The Oxford
Handbook to the Reception History of the Bible; and Blackwell's
Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Mark Knight is a
Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University. He
is the author of Chesterton and Evil (2004), author of an edition
of Mary Cecil Hay's
sensation novel Old Myddelton's Money (2004) and co-editor of
Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000 (forthcoming, 2006). He
has written a range of articles on religion and literature in the
long-nineteenth century, and is currently working on a new book
exploring sensation fiction, evangelicalism, and the mid-Victorian
novel.
An ambitious book...an important work which will no doubt stimulate much reflection and debate...a sturdily bound, well-indexed text. William Baker, Modern Language Review Knight and Mason capture the flavour of each individual text beautifully, serving to tantalise and encourage further reading rather than to frustrate, and their analysis is scholarly and suggestive. Although it is extremely selective, this is an excellent introduction to a broad and complex subject, and will provide interested readers with a solid starting point. Kate Harper, University of York This text provides an accessible introduction to the complex inter-relationships between literature and religion in the long nineteenth century without being reductive. [A] rich, accessible and carefully nuanced exploration of different Christian traditions within nineteenth-century Britain Alison Searle, The Glass, Spring 2008
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