Faith Doubt 19th Cent Br Lit

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Victorian writers characterized their era as, among other things, an age of faith and doubt, and their writings—essays, autobiographies, hymns, novels, poems, sermons, non-fiction prose—consistently vacillate between or concurrently exhibit what they called “the critical spirit” and “the will to believe.” This course addresses the fundamental importance of the dialectic of faith and doubt, as well as Anglican theological debate, the Bible, and the Catholic intellectual tradition to nineteenth-century Britain.