Heaven, Hell, and the VictoriansCambridge University Press, 1994 M10 13 - 279 páginas The Victorians were obsessed with death, bereavement, and funeral rituals, and speculated vigorously on the nature of heaven, hell, and divine judgment. This popular abridgement of Michael Wheeler's award-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology looks at the literary implications of Victorian views of death and the life beyond, and recreates vividly the fear and hope embodied in the theological positions of the novelists and poets of the age. Now accessible to a wide readership, Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians offers a wide-ranging and attractively illustrated cultural history of nineteenth-century religious experience, belief, and language in the face of death. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
A Lively Hope | 6 |
The question of biblical authority | 13 |
Analogy and the limits of language | 17 |
a test case | 22 |
Death | 28 |
consolation and communication | 31 |
The grave and the analogy of nature | 50 |
Heaven | 119 |
Heaven paradise and the kingdom | 122 |
heaven in the present tense | 136 |
Heaven in poetry of sacred and profane love | 147 |
Hell | 175 |
The fear of hell | 179 |
The theology of hell | 187 |
some versions of hell on earth | 196 |
Judgment | 68 |
Judgment the intermediate state and the millennium | 73 |
Poetic forms and apocalyptic visions | 83 |
Fiction and the sense of an ending | 109 |
Conclusion | 219 |
Notes | 230 |
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