The Victorian Religious Tract

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The History of Protestant Religious Tracts and Societies for their Dissemination

• Introduction — Occasion and Character of the The Tract Movement (1894)
• History of Initial [Pre-Victorian] Tract Enterprises (1894)
• Tract Societies (1894)
• Rhetoric and Structure (needed)

Political and Social Commentary

• Gender Matters
• Religious Tracts and Gender
• Class and Society
• “Be good, Dear Child. . . or else”: Religious Tracts for Children of the Working Classes
• Writers of Religious Tracts and Victorian Novelists
• Thackeray on Religious Tracts
• The Great Exhibition of 1851
• "The World's Great Assembly (author unknown)

Individual Authors

• Bishop John Charles Ryle (Evangelical)
  • discussion
  • individual tracts: "The Cross"
  • individual tracts: "Are You an Heir?"
• John Keble (High Church)
  • discussion
  • individual tracts: Tract 60
• Hannah More (Evangelical)
  • discussion
  • individual tracts
• John Henry Newman (High Church; later Roman Catholic)
  • discussion
  • Tract 1, 1833 (text)
  • Tract 90 (discussion)
• Isaac Williams (High Church; later Roman Catholic)

Relations to Victorian Literature

• George Eliot's Amos Barton
• D. G. Rossetti's "The Burden of Nineveh"

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Last modified 29 April 2010