عنوان

Charles Dickens and the Victorian "Mormon Moment"

شماره

LA125253

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Charles Dickens and the Victorian "Mormon Moment"

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Scott Dransfield

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The growth of Mormonism in England in the middle of the nineteenth century presented a number of challenges relating to the cultural status of the new religion and its followers. Charles Dickens's "uncommercial traveller" sketch describing a group of 800 Mormon converts preparing to emigrate to the United States, "Bound for the Great Salt Lake," represents the challenge effectively. While Mormons were quickly identified by their heresies and by those qualities that characterized cultural and religious otherness, they were also observed to possess traits of Englishness, reflecting the image of a healthy working class. This article considers the tensions among these contradictory qualities and traces them to a middle-class "secular gospel" that Dickens articulates in his novels. Dickens utilizes this "gospel"-an ethic that valorizes work and domestic order as bearing religious significance-to perceive the followers of the new religion. The growth of Mormonism in England in the middle of the nineteenth century presented a number of challenges relating to the cultural status of the new religion and its followers. Charles Dickens's "uncommercial traveller" sketch describing a group of 800 Mormon converts preparing to emigrate to the United States, "Bound for the Great Salt Lake," represents the challenge effectively. While Mormons were quickly identified by their heresies and by those qualities that characterized cultural and religious otherness, they were also observed to possess traits of Englishness, reflecting the image of a healthy working class. This article considers the tensions among these contradictory qualities and traces them to a middle-class "secular gospel" that Dickens articulates in his novels. Dickens utilizes this "gospel"-an ethic that valorizes work and domestic order as bearing religious significance-to perceive the followers of the new religion.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

489-506

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

17/5

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

Dickens

اصطلاح موضوعی

emigration

اصطلاح موضوعی

Mormonism

اصطلاح موضوعی

social class

اصطلاح موضوعی

The Uncommercial Traveller

اصطلاح موضوعی

Victorian religion

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Scott Dransfield

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685292-12341297

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y