Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians

by Michael Wheeler

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521455657
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/13/1994
Edition description:	Abridged Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Death; 2. Judgment; 3. Heaven; 4. Hell; Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

"...dazzling and marvellously informative." Fiona McCarthy, The Times

"The book is what George Steiner has called it, a work of 'formidable and incisive learning.'" Penelope Fitzgerald, The Observer

"...brilliant." Antonia Byatt, The Mail on Sunday

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