Description
This scholarly monograph investigates the complex intersection of liturgy, ritual, and secularization in nineteenth-century British literature. Joseph McQueen analyzes how major literary works engaged with religious ceremonies and practices during an era marked by declining religious authority and increasing secularization.
The study traces how Victorian and Romantic-era authors adapted, reimagined, or rejected liturgical elements in their writing, reflecting broader cultural anxieties about faith, tradition, and modernity. McQueen contextualizes literary representations of ritual within the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series, offering detailed textual analysis alongside historical and cultural perspectives.
This work contributes to understanding how literature both responded to and participated in the secularization process, revealing the enduring aesthetic and symbolic power of religious forms even as their spiritual authority diminished in British society.
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