General

• Introduction
• Evangelical Doctrine
• The Evangelical Movement in the Church of England
• Victorian Women, Evangelical Religion, and Attacks upon It and Them
• Typological Interpretation of Scripture
• The Olney Hymns

Religion — Evangelical Denominations

• The Evangelical Movement in the Church of England
• Baptists
• Methodists
• Plymouth Brethren
• Presbyterians

Religion — Opponents of the Evangelicals

• The Oxford Movement and the Tractarians
• The Broad Church Party in the Church of England

Important Evangelicals — Preachers and Laymen

• George Clayton
• William E. Gladstone
• Henry Melvill
• John Charles Ryle
• Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• William Wilberforce

The Evangelicals and Science

• Evangelical acceptance of non-Darwinian Evolution
• Darwin and Evolution
• Evangelical Popular Science Publishing

Political and Social Contexts

• Postive Effects on British Society
• The antislavery movement
• Evangelical Missionaries to the working classes — the Navvy Missionary Society
• Dissenting Politics and Evangelicalism
• Identified with Whigs
• The Protestant Fight for Jewish Civil Liberties in Victorian England

Literary relations: Authors raised as Evangelicals or who had an Evangelical Phase

• Robert Browning
• His religous upbringing
• Browning's use of typological symbolism in his major works
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• John Henry Newman
• John Ruskin
• Ruskin's early evangelical faith
• Ruskin's "language of types" and Evangelical readings of scripture

Literary relations: Anti-Evangelical Authors

• Matthew Arnold
• Samuel Butler
• Charles Dickens
• Questioning Evangelical Religion in Brontë and Dickens
• John Henry Newman
• Newman on the Evangelicals
• Elizabeth Missing Sewell
• Dislikes Ruskin's evangelical tone

Suggested readings

Brown, Ford K. Fathers of the Victorians: The Age of Wilberforce. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1961.

Cuningham, Valentinme. Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.

Hilton, Boyd. The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1785-1865. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Jay, Elizabeth. The Religion of the Heart: Anglican Evangelicalism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.

Russell, George W. E. A Short History of the Evangelical Movement. London: A. R. Mowbray and Son, 1915 [Added by GPL].