The Victorian Religious Tract: An Overview

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The Tract as a Literary Form

• Introduction (needed)
• Rhetoric and Structure (needed)

Political and Social Commentary

• Gender Matters (needed)
• Class and Society (needed)
• 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 11 March 2005