Emma Mason is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (2005), and numerous articles on the relationship between religion and poetry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is also a coeditor of two forthcoming volumes on biblical hermeneutics: The Oxford Handbook to the Reception History of the Bible; and Blackwell's Companion to the Bible in English Literature.
Mark Knight is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University. He is the author of Chesterton and Evil (2004), author of an edition of Mary Cecil Hay's sensation novel Old Myddelton's Money (2004) and co-editor of Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000 (forthcoming, 2006). He has written a range of articles on religion and literature in the long-nineteenth century, and is currently working on a new book exploring sensation fiction, evangelicalism, and the mid-Victorian novel.

• Introduction


• 1: Dissent: Wesley to Blake


• 2: Unitarianism: Priestley to Gaskell


• 3: The Oxford Movement: Wordsworth to Hopkins


• 4: Evangelicalism: Brontë to Eliot


• 5: Secularization: Dickens to Hardy


• 6: Catholicism and Mysticism: Husymans to Chesterton