Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society - Essays in Honor of R.K. Webb (Hardcover)

This volume of 11 specially commissioned essays celebrates the work of Robert K. Webb, the modern British historian. The contributors, scholars from Britain, Canada, Australia and the United States, address some of the central themes in the history of 19th-century religion, including evangelicalism and the culture of the market economy, religious issues in the liberal politics of the 1830s, the radical atheist, Robert Taylor, Charles Darwin, the Victorian ideal of "manliness", 19th century images of Mary Magdalene, the Jews in Victorian society, colonialism, the role of women missionaries as models of female achievement and spiritualism during the Great War. Together these essays aim to make a significant contribution to the study of the role of religion in Victorian society. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in the fields of Victorian history and religious studies.