Brave Hermeneutics, the Eastern Question, and Kingsley’s Hypatia.
This article places Charles Kingsley’s Hypatia (1852–53) within the context of the escalating conflict later to become the Crimean War. Resituating the novel against the backdrop of the Eastern Question circa 1851 allows us to make sense of Kingsley’s scenes of Gothic apathy, manly heroism, and reli...
| Publicado en: | Victorian Studies Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 412 - 434 |
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