Victorian Conversion Narratives and Reading Communities. Emily Walker Heady

Reading canonical authors such as John Henry Newman Charles Dickens Charlotte Brontà George Eliot and Oscar Wilde through a dual lens of literary history and post-liberal theology Emily Walker Heady suggests that Victorian authors discuss conversion experiences in the context of the modes in which they are narrated. Thus conversion narratives became a form of literary criticism while literary conventions functioned as a means of discussing the nature of conversion.