Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D. in English
Department
English
First Advisor
Daniel Stout
Second Advisor
Jarod H. Roll
Third Advisor
Jason D. Solinger
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how the organizing force of the Anglican Church and the figure of the Anglican clergyman were used to interrogate social, legal, and historical developments in nineteenth-century fiction. The project outlines how authors reacted to events such as Pluralism reform, the opening of training schools for clergy, and the Oxford Movement. There was a growing importance of institutions (including new physical buildings and Anglican reform movements). Further, the clergy, pushed by the increased expectation to modernize and professionalize, became a specialist career, with raised training and performance requirements. As a result of these internal changes, we find the Anglican Church establishment in a state of flux across the nineteenth century: working to adapt itself to a new normal where Anglicanism as the dominant organizing force in people's lives could no longer be taken for granted.
Recommended Citation
Cason, Rachel Elizabeth, "Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1560.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1560