Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology

by Michael Wheeler

Death, judgement, heaven and hell - the four last things of Christian eschatology - have long been the subject of anxious speculation and fierce controversy, and never more so in the modern era than in Victorian Britain. In this major illustrated study, Michael Wheeler, a literary critic and cultural historian of the period, looks at the literary implications of Victorian views of death and the life beyond. Wheeler's extensive analyses of each of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521306175
• ISBN13: 9780521306171
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 10.0"