Rossow, Francis C. “Giving Christian Doctrine a New Translation: Selected Examples from the Novels of C. S. Lewis.” Concordia Journal 21 (July 1995): 281–97.
Harkness — Bible in Fiction and Drama
Harkness, David James. “The Bible in Fiction and Drama: A Bibliography with Notes.” University of Tennessee News Letter 35 (1956): 7–15.
Maly-Schatter — Puritan Element in Victorian Fiction
Maly-Schatter, Florence. The Puritan Element in Victorian Fiction, with Especial Reference to the Works of G. Eliot, Dickens and Thackeray. Zurich: A. G. Gebr. Leemann & Co., 1942.
University of Zurich thesis.
Sharrock — Trial of Vices
Sharrock, Roger. “The Trial of Vices in Puritan Fiction.” Baptist Quarterly 14 (1951–52): 3–12, 48.
Filmer — Fiction of C. S. Lewis
Filmer, Kath. The Fiction of C. S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Reviews: Margo Axsom, Religion and Literature 25 (Autumn, 1993): 93–94; George Musacchio, Christianity and Literature 42 (Spring, 1993): 495–97.
Howard — C. S. Lewis
Howard, Thomas. C. S. Lewis, Man of Letters: A Reading of His Fiction. Worthing: Churchman, 1987.
Reviews: Maria Dolores Odero, Scripta Theologica 24 (January–April 1992): 372–73; Mark Sebanc, Epiphany 12 (Summer, 1992): 74–80.
Yanitelli — Newman Symposium
Yanitelli, Victor R., ed. A Newman Symposium: Report on the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Catholic Renascence Society at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., 1952. New York: 1953.
Contents: Edmond D. Benard, “The Background and Theory of the Idea“; David Bulman, C.P., “Cardinal Newman and Venerable Dominic Barberi”; A. Dwight Culler, “Newman: The Remembrance of Things Past”; Charles F. Donovan, “Newman’s University: The Actuality”; Jeremiah K. Durick, “Newman as a Man of Letters”; Anne Fremantle, “Newman and English Literature”; Margaret R. Grennan, “Newman the Novelist”; Joseph C. Keenan, “Newman’s Significance”; Sister Maria Sarafina Mazz, S.C., “Newman in Italy”; Mother Mary Lawrence, S.H.C.J., “Newman and the Early Church Fathers”; John M. Oesterreicher, “Newman’s Vision of the Church”; Francis M. Rogers, “Newman’s Idea and the Secular University in the United States”; Alvan S. Ryand, “Newman and T. S. Eliot on Religion and Literature”; Sister Marie Eugenie, C.I.M., “Newman’s Idea in the Catholic University”; Martin J. Svaglic, “Newman in Our Time”; John E. Wise, S.J., “Real Knowledge and the University.”
Siegel — Biblical Novel
Siegel, Ben. “The Biblical Novel, 1900–1959: A Preliminary Checklist.” Bulletin of Bibliography 23 (1961): 88–90.
Knight — Good Words
Knight, Mark. Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2019.
“This study explores how evangelicalism played a role in the development of the Victorian novel.”
The Pilgrim’s progression to Vanity fair — Dickens’s tale of conversion — Good words and the Great Commission — Hermeneutics, evangelical common sense, and The moonstone — Samuel Butler’s The way of all flesh and our stories of evangelicalism.
Kilby — Images of Salvation
Kilby, Clyde S. Images of Salvation in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. Wheaton, Ill.: Harold Shaw, 1978.
Armentrout — This Sacred History
Armentrout, Donald S., ed. This Sacred History: Anglican Reflections for John Booty. Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 1990.
Includes Royal W. Rhodes, “John Keble: Grammarian of Poetry,” pp. 47–60; Peggy R. Ellsberg, “Distant and Different: Catholics and Anti-Catholics in Some Victorian Novels,” pp. 98–111; John N. Wall, “Hooker’s ‘Faire Speeche’: Rhetorical Strategies in the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity,” pp. 125–43.
Review: Living Church 201 (4 November 1990): 19.
Dennis — Charlotte Yonge
Dennis, Barbara. Charlotte Yonge (1823–1901), Novelist of the Oxford Movement: A Literature of Victorian Culture and Society. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
Review: Rebecca Reynolds, Literature and Theology 8 (September 1994): 336–37.
Clarke — The Church and Literature
Clarke, Peter, and Charlotte Methuen, eds. The Church and Literature. Woodbridge, Suffolk: published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by the Boydell Press, 2012.
Papers delivered at the Ecclesiastical History Society, Summer Meeting, 2010.
Seeking meaning behind epistolary clichés: intercessory prayer clauses in Christian letters / Renie Choy — Gregory the Great: reader, writer and read / Daniel Anlezark — Was anyone listening? Christian apologetics against Islam as a literary genre / Jessica Lee Ehinger — Frivolity and reform in the church : the Irish experience, 1066–1166 / David N. Dumville — Ecclesiology on the edge: Dante and the church / John Took — “No milkless cow”: the cross of Christ in medieval Irish literature / Salvador Ryan — “Y Ganrif Fawr”? piety, literature and patronage in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Wales / Katharine K. Olson — The biblical verse of Hans Sachs : the popularization of Scripture in the Lutheran Reformation / Philip Broadhead — Thomas More’s Confutation: a literary failure? / Eamon Duffy — Staging vice and acting evil: theatre and anti-theatre in early modern England / George Oppitz-Trotman — William Perkins’s The arte of prophecying: a literary manifesto / W. B. Patterson — Milton’s churches / Thomas N. Corns — Anti-Catholicism and obscene literature: The case of Mrs. Mary Catherine Cadiere and its context / Colin Haydon — English convents in eighteenth-century travel literature / Caroline Watkinson — A novel resistance: mission narrative as the anti-novel in the evangelical assault on British culture / Benjamin L. Fischer — Reserve and physical imagery in the Tractarian poetry of Isaac Williams (1802-65) / John Boneham — W. E. Heygate: Tractarian clerical novelist / George Herring — A writer or a religious?: Lady Georgiana Fullerton’s dilemma / Kathleen Jaeger — Writing the Sabbath: the literature of the nineteenth-century Sunday observance debate / Martin Spence — The pastor chief and other stories: Waldensian historical fiction in the nineteenth century / Mark Smith — The Jesuit as villain in nineteenth-century British fiction / John Wolffe — Christian Dickens / Andrew Sanders — Disraeli’s novels: religion and identity / David Brooks — Breadth from dissent: Ada Ellen Bayly (“Edna Lyall”) and her fiction / Clyde Binfield — “Pulp Methodism” revisited: the literature and significance of Silas and Joseph Hocking / Martin Wellings — Some popes in English literature c. 1850-1950 / Bernard Hamilton — Jesuit pulp fiction: the serial novels of Antonio Bresciani in La civiltà cattolica / Oliver Logan — Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest and novelist: presidential address / Sheridan Gilley — “Oh dear, if only the Reformation had happened differently”: Anglicanism, the Reformation and Dame Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) / Judith Maltby — The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chamberlain and the censorship of the theatre, 1909–49 / Peter Webster — The trials of Lady Chatterley, the modernist bishop and the Victorian archbishop: clashes of class, culture and generations / Stuart Mews — The cloister and the crime: medieval monks in modern murder-mysteries / Sarah Foot — Piety and polemic in evangelical prophecy fiction, 1995–2000 / Crawford Gribben.
Herbert — Evangelical Gothic
Herbert, Christopher. Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.
“Examining both the theology of John Wesley, George Whitefield, and William Wilberforce and novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sir Walter Scott, and Bram Stoker as well as a host of ‘Evangelical novels’ of the period, Herbert analyzes the Evangelical and anti-Evangelical forces at play in Victorian literature and culture, challenging accepted notions of the impact of the Evangelical movement on gothic Victorian literature.”
O’Connell — Origins of the English Marriage Plot
O’Connell, Lisa. The Origins of the English Marriage Plot: Literature, Politics and Religion in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
“Why did marriage become central to the English novel in the eighteenth-century? As clandestine weddings and the unruly culture that surrounded them began to threaten power and property, questions about where and how to marry became urgent matters of public debate. In 1753, in an unprecedented and controversial use of state power, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke mandated Anglican church weddings as marriage’s only legal form. Resistance to his Marriage Act would fuel a new kind of realist marriage plot in England and help to produce political radicalism as we know it. Focusing on how major authors from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen made church weddings a lynchpin of their fiction, The Origins of the English Marriage Plot offers a truly innovative account of the rise of the novel by telling the story of the English marriage plot’s engagement with the most compelling political and social questions of its time.”
Bowkett —Place of Religion in Some of the Major Novels of Dickens
Bowkett, C. E. V. “The Place of Religion in Some of the Major Novels of Charles Dickens.” M.A. thesis, University of Durham, 1968.
Brooks — Rhetorical Form of Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
Brooks, Gerry H. The Rhetorical Form of Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
Baker — Novel and the Oxford Movement
Baker, Joseph E. The Novel and the Oxford Movement. Princeton Studies in English, 8. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932.
A Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton University, 1931.
Reviews: Quarterly Review 260 (1933): 179–80; N.B., Modern Languages 14 (1933): 202; G. H. Harper, Modern Language Notes 48 (1933): 480–81; A. H. Dodd, History 18 (1933): 272–73; C. F. Harrold, Philological Quarterly 12 (1933): 319–20; Charles Smyth, Criterion 12 (1933): 686–87; Times Literary Supplement, 29 June 1933, p. 436.
Newton — Experiments in Dissent
Newton, Judy L. “Experiments in Dissent: A Study of Form in Five ‘Novels of Disbelief’.” Dissertation, University of California at Berkeley.
J. A. Froude, Samuel Butler, William Hale White, William Arnold.
Abstract: Dissertation Abstracts 31 (1971): 6562–63A.
Bede — A ‘Kinder, Gentler’ Anglican Church
Bede, Belinda. “A ‘Kinder, Gentler’ Anglican Church: The Novels of Barbara Pym.” Anglican Theological Review 75 (1993): 387–98.
Crawford — Novel That Occasioned Newman’s Loss and Gain
Crawford, Charlotte E. “The Novel That Occasioned Newman’s Loss and Gain.” Modern Language Notes 65 (1950): 414–18.
Schieder — Loss and Gain?
Schieder, R. M. “Loss and Gain? The Theme of Conversion in Late Victorian Fiction.” Victorian Studies 9 (1965): 29–44.
Thormählen — Brontës and Religion
Thormählen, Marianne. The Brontës and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Abstract: This is the first full-length study of religion in the fiction of the Brontës. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the Anglican church in the nineteenth century, Marianne Thormählen shows how the Brontës’ familiarity with the contemporary debates on doctrinal, ethical and ecclesiastical issues informs their novels. Divided into four parts, the book examines denominations, doctrines, ethics and clerics in the work of the Brontës. The analyses of the novels clarify the constant interplay of human and Divine love in the development of the novels. While demonstrating that the Brontës’ fiction usually reflects the basic tenets of Evangelical Anglicanism, the book emphasises the characteristic spiritual freedom and audacity of the Brontës. Lucid and vigorously written, it will open up new perspectives for Brontë specialists and enthusiasts alike on a fundamental aspect of the novels greatly neglected in recent decades.”
Baker — The Novel and the Oxford Movement
Baker, Joseph E. The Novel and the Oxford Movement. Princeton Studies in English 8. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1932.
A Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton University, 1931.
Reviews: Quarterly Review 260 (1933): 179-80; N.B., Modern Languages 14 (1933): 202; G. H. Harper, Modern Language Notes 48 (1933): 480-81; A. H. Dodd, History 18 (1933): 272-73; C. F. Harrold, Philological Quarterly 12 (1933): 319-20; Charles Smyth, Criterion 12 (1933): 686-87; Times Literary Supplement, 29 June 1933, p. 436.
Woods — ‘What Are They to Do with Their Lives?’
Woods, Livia Arndal. “‘What Are They to Do with Their Lives?’: Anglican Sisterhoods and Useful Angels in Three Novels by Charlotte Mary Yonge.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 37.2 (2015): 147–63.
Bowles — Crucifix, Communion, and Convent
Bowles, Noelle. “Crucifix, Communion, and Convent: The Real Presence of Anglican Ritualism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Christianity and Literature 62.2 (2012): 243–58.
Dale — Heretical Narration
Dale, Peter Allan. “Heretical Narration: Charlotte Brontë’s Search for Endlessness.” Religion and Literature 16 (1984): 1–24.
Asals — Jeremy Taylor and Hawthorne’s Early Tales
Asals, Frederick. “Jeremy Taylor and Hawthorne’s Early Tales.” American Transcendental Quarterly 14 (1972): 15–23.
Madsen — Nun in the Garret
Madsen, Emily. “The Nun in the Garret: The Marriage Plot and Religious Epistemology in the Victorian Novel.” Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 2015.
Dissertation Abstracts International 76 (December 2015): 76.
Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, Mary Ward.
Koppel — Religious Dimension of Jane Austen’s Novels
Koppel, Gene. The Religious Dimension of Jane Austen’s Novels. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research, 1988.
Shorthouse — John Inglesant
Shorthouse, J. H. John Inglesant: A Romance. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1880.
A privately printed novel in which Little Gidding figures prominently; a trade edition was published in 1881 by Macmillan.
Keegan — Catholic Question in the Victorian Novel
Keegan, Sister Helen Therese. “The Catholic Question in the Victorian Novel.” Ph.D. dissertation, Western Reserve University, 1942.
Jones — Use of the Bible in George Eliot’s Fiction
Jones, Jesse C. “The Use of the Bible in George Eliot’s Fiction.” Doctoral dissertation.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1975): 2846A.
Bramley — Religion and the Novelists
Bramley, J. A. “Religion and the Novelists.” Contemporary Review 180 (December 1951): 348–53.
Hardy, Lawrence.
Addleshaw — High Church Movement in Victorian Fiction
Addleshaw, S. “The High Church Movement in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte M. Yonge.” Church Quarterly Review 120 (1935): 54–73.
Boyd — Religion in Contemporary Fiction
Boyd, George N., and Lois A. Boyd. Religion in Contemporary Fiction: Criticism from 1945 to the Present. San Antonio, Tex.: Trinity University Press, 1973.
Vance — Bible and Novel
Vance, Norman. Bible and Novel: Narrative Authority and the Death of God. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Contents: 1. God and the Bible, secularisms and novels. — 2. The authority of the Bible. — 3. The crisis of biblical authority. — 4. George Eliot’s secular scriptures. — 5. Thomas Hardy: the church and the negation of Christianity. — 6. Mary Ward and the problems of history. — 7. Rider Haggard: adventures with the numinous. — 8. Conclusion: authority, the novel and God.
English Literature & Religion: A Bibliography 