Bible and Novel: Narrative Authority and the Death of God

by Norman Vance

Book Overview

The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining. Did the novel supplant the Bible? The novelists often adopted or participated in a broadly progressive narrative of social change which can be seen as a secular replacement for the theological narrative of "salvation history" and the waning authority of biblical narrative. Victorian fiction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199680574
• ISBN13: 9780199680573
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"