A People of One Book
The Bible and the Victorians
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 October 2012
- ISBN 9780199667819
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 234x183x17 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book vividly recovers the lost world of the Victorians in which everyone thought, spoke, and argued through scripture. Larsen presents lively individual case studies of well known figures from different religious and sceptical traditions, including Florence Nightingale, T. H. Huxley, C. H. Spurgeon, and Catherine Booth.
MoreLong description:
Although the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. They habitually read the Bible, quoted it, adopted its phraseology as their own, thought in its categories, and viewed their own lives and experiences through a scriptural lens. This astonishingly deep, relentless, and resonant engagement with the Bible was true across the religious spectrum from Catholics to Unitarians and beyond.
The scripture-saturated culture of nineteenth-century England is displayed by Timothy Larsen in a series of lively case studies of representative figures ranging from the Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry to the liberal Anglican pioneer of nursing Florence Nightingale to the Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon to the Jewish author Grace Aguilar. Even the agnostic man of science T. H. Huxley and the atheist leaders Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant were thoroughly and profoundly preoccupied with the Bible.
Serving as a tour of the diversity and variety of nineteenth-century views, Larsen's study presents the distinctive beliefs and practices of all the major Victorian religious and sceptical traditions from Anglo-Catholics to the Salvation Army to Spiritualism, while simultaneously drawing out their common, shared culture as a people of one book.
Larsenâs careful research and accessible style will make this one of the classic works on the period for many years to come.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Anglo-Catholics: E. B. Pusey and Holy Scripture
Roman Catholics: Nicholas Wiseman and Sacred Scripture
Atheists: Charles Bradlaugh, Annie Besant, and 'this indictable book'
Methodist and Holiness: Catherine Booth, William Cooke, and the Scriptures
Liberal Anglicans: Florence Nightingale and the Bible
Unitarians: Mary Carpenter and the Sacred Writings
Quakers: Elizabeth Fry and 'Reading'
Agnostics: T. H.Huxley and Bibliolatry
Evangelical Anglicans: Josephine Butler and the Word of God
Orthodox Old Dissent: C. H. Spurgeon and 'the Book'
Conclusion: Spiritualism, Judaism, and the Brethren - A People of One Book
