Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"...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
Synopsis
Popular abridgement of Michael Wheeler's award-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-266) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Death; 2. Judgment; 3. Heaven; 4. Hell; Conclusion.