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Frances Knight - Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age - 9781780768915 - V9781780768915
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Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age

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Description for Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age Hardback. Frances Knight shows how late Victorian Britain reacted to the bold agendas being set by the thinkers of the fin de siecle Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HRAM2; HRAX; HRCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 33. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780768915
SKU
V9781780768915
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About Frances Knight
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).

Reviews for Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age
'Frances Knight has provided a substantial and original contribution to the now very extensive literature on Victorian Christianity. This fine and illuminating study underlines the importance of the fin de siecle as a pivotal era in Christian thought and cultural life in England. In many surprising ways, it illustrates the extent to which this period has been misconstrued and misrepresented ... Read more

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