Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians
This popular abridgement of Michael Wheeler's award-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology (CUP, 1991) offers a wide-ranging and attactively illustrated cultural history of nineteenth-century religious experience, belief and language in the face of death.
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Popular abridgement of Michael Wheeler's award-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology.
List of illustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1A lively hope6The question of biblical authority13Analogy and the limits of language17'Our friend Lazarus sleepeth': a test case221Death28The deathbed: consolation and communication31The grave, and the analogy of nature502Judgment68Judgment, the intermediate state, and the millennium73Poetic forms and apocalyptic visions83Fiction and the sense of an ending1093Heaven119Heaven, paradise, and the kingdom122Hymnody: heaven in the present tense136Heaven in poetry of sacred and profane love1474Hell175The fear of hell179The theology of hell187'From fearful hope into fearless despair': some versions of hell on earth196Conclusion219Notes230Index267
