1st Edition
Spaces of the Sacred and Profane Dickens, Trollope, and the Victorian Cathedral Town
By Elizabeth A. Bridgham
Copyright 2008
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study examines the unique cultural space of Victorian cathedral towns as they appear in the literary work of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope, arguing that Dickens and Trollope use the cathedral town’s enclosure, and its overt connections between sacred and secular, present and past, as an ideal locus from which to critique Victorian religious attitudes, aesthetic anxieties, business... Read more
Introduction: Ambivalent Spaces 1. Monstrous Unions: Dickens, Trollope, and the (Anglo-) Catholic Question 2. Doctrinal Dissonance: Cathedral Music and the Issue of Vocation 3. 'Broken Niche and Defaced Statue': Creativity in the Cathedral. Conclusion: Picturesque Escape or Reimagined Space?: The Cathedral Town in Context
Biography
Elizabeth A. Bridgham
