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Miriam Elizabeth Burstein is associate professor of English at the College at Brockport, State University of New York. She is the author of Narrating Women’s History in Britain, 1770–1902. “In Victorian Reformations, Miriam Elizabeth Burstein persuasively shows how non-canonical Victorian historical novels offer essential insights into the shaping and importance of Victorian religious debates. Informative and wellargued , her book is a significant work for those who are interested in Victorian literature and Victorian religion, as well as the intersection of the two.” —CAROL ENGELHARDT HERRINGER, Wright State University “Miriam Burstein examines how the Victorians began to reenvision the Protestant Reformation in an effort to confront and combat their own religious anxieties about sectarianism and secularization. She raises the very broad issues of how to write ‘historical fiction,’ exactly what it is, and what theoretical concerns emerge when one tries to capture the past from a distant vantage point. Most impressive to me is the way that ‘theory’ is brought into the discussion , but does not overwhelm the close analysis of more than three dozen literary texts.” —DIANE LONG HOEVELER, author of Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 “Victorian Reformations sheds fresh light on the significance of religion in historical nineteenth-century fiction. The argument is subtle but strong, buttressed by meticulous scholarship and conveyed in vigorous prose that keeps the reader focused and stimulated throughout. This readable and independent-minded study will be a boon to research on the nineteenth century, not only in the field of literature but also in those of history and religious studies.” —MARIANNE THORMÄHLEN, Lund University MIRIAM EL IZAB ETH BURSTE IN is associate professor of English at the College at Brockport, State University of New York. She is the author of Narrating Women’s History in Britain, 1770–1902. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 • undpress.nd.edu ...

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