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- catalog abstract "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 the poets of the age. -- Book cover.".
- catalog alternative "Death and the future life in Victorian literature and theology".
- catalog contributor b7799484.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "A lively hope. The question of biblical authority. Analogy and the limits of language. 'Our friend Lazarus sleepeth': a test case -- 1. Death. The deathbed: consolation and communication. The grave, and the analogy of nature -- 2. Judgment. Judgment, the intermediate state, and the millennium. Poetic forms and apocalyptic visions. Fiction and the sense of an ending -- 3. Heaven. Heaven, paradise, and the kingdom. Hymnody: heaven in the present tense. Heaven in poetry of sacred and profane love -- 4. Hell. The fear of hell. The theology of hell. 'From fearful hope into fearless despair': some versions of hell on earth.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-266) and index.".
- catalog description "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 the poets of the age. -- Book cover.".
- catalog extent "xv, 279 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521455162".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/354 20".
- catalog subject "Death Religious aspects Christianity History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Death in literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Future life Christianity History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Future life in literature.".
- catalog subject "Heaven in literature.".
- catalog subject "Hell in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR468.D42 W4 1994".
- catalog subject "Theology, Doctrinal Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A lively hope. The question of biblical authority. Analogy and the limits of language. 'Our friend Lazarus sleepeth': a test case -- 1. Death. The deathbed: consolation and communication. The grave, and the analogy of nature -- 2. Judgment. Judgment, the intermediate state, and the millennium. Poetic forms and apocalyptic visions. Fiction and the sense of an ending -- 3. Heaven. Heaven, paradise, and the kingdom. Hymnody: heaven in the present tense. Heaven in poetry of sacred and profane love -- 4. Hell. The fear of hell. The theology of hell. 'From fearful hope into fearless despair': some versions of hell on earth.".
- catalog title "Death and the future life in Victorian literature and theology".
- catalog title "Heaven, hell, and the Victorians / Michael Wheeler.".
- catalog type "text".