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Spaces of the Sacred and Profane - Dickens, Trollope, and the Victorian Cathedral Town (Paperback)
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Spaces of the Sacred and Profane - Dickens, Trollope, and the Victorian Cathedral Town (Paperback)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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This study examines the unique cultural space of Victorian
cathedral towns as they appear in the literary work of Charles
Dickens and Anthony Trollope, arguing that Dickens and Trollope use
the cathedral town's enclosure, and its overt connections between
sacred and secular, present and past, as an ideal locus from which
to critique Victorian religious attitudes, aesthetic anxieties,
business practices, and even immigration. By displacing these
issues from the metropolis, these social authors defamiliarize
them, raising what might have been considered strictly urban
problems to the level of national crises. By situating contemporary
debates in cathedral towns, Dickens and Trollope complicate the
restrictive dichotomy between urban and rural space often drawn by
contemporary critics and Victorian fiction writers alike. In this
book, Bridgham focuses on the appearance of three such key concerns
appearing in the cathedral towns of each writer: religious
fragmentation, the social value of artistic labor, and the Gothic
revival. Dickens and Trollope reject Romantic nostalgia by
concentrating on the ancient, yet vital (as opposed to ruined)
edifices of the cathedrals, and by demonstrating ways in which
modern sensibilities, politics, and comforts supersede the values
of the cloister. In this sense, their cathedral towns are not
idealized escapes; rather, they reflect the societies of which they
are a part.
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