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Explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Herbert contends that the realistic popular novel of the time was constitutionally alien to Evangelical ideology and even, to some extent, took its opposition to that ideology as its core function.

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Evangelical Gothic The English Novel and the

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      Publisher: University of Virginia Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/11/2019
      ISBN13: 9780813943404, 978-0813943404
      ISBN10: 081394340X
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      Book Synopsis
      Explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Herbert contends that the realistic popular novel of the time was constitutionally alien to Evangelical ideology and even, to some extent, took its opposition to that ideology as its core function.

      Trade Review

      "A strong work by a major critic, with an original, forceful, indeed bracingly polemical argument, supported by striking new readings of major canonical works as well as a range of obscure sources."

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