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Chapter 10 - The Novel

from Part II - Literary Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2021

Jeffrey W. Barbeau
By
Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Affiliation:
Wheaton College, Illinois
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Summary

This chapter explores the relationship between religion and “the novel” by focusing on a cross-section of religious questions having to do with belonging (domestic, national, global) and identity. It begins with a consideration the Evangelical Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809), moves to a cluster of novels that contemplated domestic religious differences in the form of Catholics and Jews, and concludes with a shift outside the geographical boundaries of the United Kingdom and Ireland to examine early novelistic responses to overseas missionary movements, which raised challenging questions about empire, race, and religious community.

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British Romanticismthe novelHannah MoremissionsevangelicalismCatholicismJudaism
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The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion , pp. 161 - 179
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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