Good Words

This new study explores how evangelicalism played a vital role in the development of the Victorian novel. In contrast to those who see the evangelical movement as trivial to our histories of the novel and part of the losing side in religions battle with secularityampnbspGood Words Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novelampnbspexamines fiction by major writers of the nineteenth centuryThackeray Dickens Wood MacDonald Collins and Butlerand reveals the extent to which the novel was shaped by eva