Religion in Victorian Era

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"God and Religion in Victorian Literature
Introduction
Hilary Fraser believes that one of the most prominent and characteristic features of Victorian thought was "a proliferation of religio-aesthetic theories designed to reconcile the claims of Christianity and beauty, morality and art" (Fraser 1). She argues that this tendency to relate religious experience to aesthetic experience was particularly pronounced in the nineteenth century. For example, she notes that in the visual arts, painters used biblical scenes for their subject-matter. She believes that this resulted in a "peculiarly Victorian religious mysticism," which many people came to accept as the particular domain of Victorian poetry (Fraser 2). Thus, she argues, Victorian poetry became a way of expressing religious.."

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