Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siecle
The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age
The period known as the fin de siecle - defined in this groundbreaking book as chiefly the period between1885 and 1901 - was a fluid and unsettling epoch of optimism and pessimism, endings and beginnings, aswell as of new forms of creativity and anxiety. The end of the century has attracted much interest from scholars of literary and cultural studies, who regard it as a critical moment in the history of their disciplines; but it has been relatively ignored by religious historians. Frances Knight here sets right that neglect. She shows how late Victorian society (often said to be one of the most intensely Christian cultures the world has ever…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-85772-789-3
- EAN: 9780857727893
- Produktnummer: 23574529
- Verlag: I.B.Tauris
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'579 KB
Über den Autor
Frances Knight is Associate Professor in the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of The Nineteenth-century Church and English Society (1995), The Welsh Church from Reformation to Disestablishment (2007, with William Jacob, Glanmor Williams and Nigel Yates) and The Church in the Nineteenth Century (I.B.Tauris, 2008).
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