Victorian conversion narratives and reading communities

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    • Heady, Emily Walker

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Victorian conversion narratives and reading communities

Emily Walker Heady

Ashgate, c2013

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-169) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Because Victorian authors rarely discuss conversion experiences separately from the modes in which they are narrated, Emily Walker Heady argues that the conversion narrative became, in effect, a form of literary criticism. Literary conventions, in turn, served the reciprocal function as a means of discussing the nature of what Heady calls the 'heart-change.' Heady reads canonical authors such as John Henry Newman, Charles Dickens, Charlotte BrontA", George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde through a dual lens of literary history and post-liberal theology. As Heady shows, these authors question the ability of realism to contain the emotionally freighted and often jarring plot lines that characterize conversion. In so doing, they explore the limits of narrative form while also shedding light on the ways in which conversion narratives address and often disrupt the reading communities in which they occur.

目次

  • 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 BrontA"'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.

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