Heaven, hell, and the Victorians
This popular abridgement of Michael Wheeler's award-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology (hailed as 'dazzling and marvellously informative', 'formidable and incisive', and 'brilliant') offers a wide-ranging and attractively illustrated cultural history of nineteenth-century attitudes to death.
Print Book, English, ©1994
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xv, 279 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521455169, 9780521455657, 0521455162, 0521455650
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Introduction; 1. Death; 2. Judgment; 3. Heaven; 4. Hell; Conclusion.
Previous ed. published as: Death and the future life in Victorian literature and theology. 1990