Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians [Hardcover]

Popular abridgement of Michael Wheeler's award-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology.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 attractively illustrated cultural history of nineteenth-century religious experience, belief and language in the face of death.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 attractively illustrated cultural history of nineteenth-century religious experience, belief and language in the face of death.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.Introduction; 1. Death; 2. Judgment; 3. Heaven; 4. Hell; Conclusion. ...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