PROPHECY AND ANTI-POPERY IN VICTORIAN LONDON: JOHN CUMMING RECONSIDERED

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Ellison, Robert H. Engelhardt, Carol Marie
Copyright Year	2003
Description	IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to understand Victorian culture without understanding the role of religion in shaping, consolidating, and challenging that culture. In countless ways, religion was integral to Victorian culture: Britain and Ireland had established churches; political and religious questions were often intertwined, as with the Maynooth Controversy and the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland; religious questions were regularly enacted in public, as when the reestablishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy (1850) inspired riots and the hangings in effigy of the pope and the newly-created Cardinal, Nicholas Wiseman. Victorians regularly sought religious meanings in cataclysmic events; the response to the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) was framed in religious terms, as Britons from the queen on down sought a divine explanation for the uprising. As that response shows, religion – specifically, Protestant Christianity – was an important component of national identity, as Linda Colley has argued in Britons: Forging the Nation.
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Ending Page	389
Page Count	17
Starting Page	373
ISSN	10601503
e-ISSN	14701553
DOI	10.1017/s1060150303000196
Journal	Victorian Literature and Culture
Issue Number	01
Volume Number	31
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2003-03-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Victorian Literature and Culture
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cultural Studies Literature and Literary Theory