Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel

• Main Author: Traver, Teresa Huffman (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; British literature.; Fiction.; Catholic Church.; Religions.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Catholicism.; Comparative Religion.

Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel argues that the Creedal doctrines of "the communion of saints" and the "holy Catholic Church" provided Victorian novelists-both Roman Catholic and Protestant-with a means of exploring religious forms of co...

Table of Contents:

• One: Introduction: "A Home for the Lonely"
• Two: Shipwrecks, House-fires, and Mourning Rings
• Three: Losing a Family, Gaining a Church
• Four: Conversion, Duality, and Vocation: The Perpetual Curate
• Five: "Home by Michaelmas": Yonge's Tractarian Domestic
• Six: Conclusion: "Desire of Nations".