Beginning with an examination of Victorian biblical exegesis in figures suchas Benjamin Jowett John Henry Newman and Matthew Arnold the book moves tostudies of ... » 

Beginning with an examination of Victorian biblical exegesis in figures suchas Benjamin Jowett John Henry Newman and Matthew Arnold the book moves tostudies of Thomas Carlyle George Eliot and Oscar Wilde. Emphasizing theextent to which these important writers are preoccupied with hermeneuticsAnger also shows that their thought questions and qualifies some of theassumptions of contemporary criticism. «