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Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction University of Mississippi eGrove Electronic Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 2019 Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth- Century Fiction Rachel Elizabeth Cason University of Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Cason, Rachel Elizabeth, "Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1560. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1560 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VICAR VICTORIA: WRITING THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree The University of Mississippi Rachel Elizabeth Cason May 2019 Copyright © 2019 by Rachel Elizabeth Cason All rights reserved ABSTRACT Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how the organizing force of the Anglican Church and the figure of the Anglican clergyman were used to interrogate social, legal, and historical developments in nineteenth-century fiction. The project outlines how authors reacted to events such as Pluralism reform, the opening of training schools for clergy, and the Oxford Movement. There was a growing importance of institutions (including new physical buildings and Anglican reform movements). Further, the clergy, pushed by the increased expectation to modernize and professionalize, became a specialist career, with raised training and performance requirements. As a result of these internal changes, we find the Anglican Church establishment in a state of flux across the nineteenth century: working to adapt itself to a new normal where Anglicanism as the dominant organizing force in people's lives could no longer be taken for granted. This dissertation argues that nineteenth-century fictional clerical figures and depictions of the Church are more psychologically-complex than those that came before, and that writing these dynamic, psychologically-complex versions allowed Victorian authors to engage seriously the reform movements that affected people across England. Texts examined include Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life, Margaret Oliphant's The Perpetual Curate and The Rector, Charlotte Mary Yonge's The Daisy Chain, Or Aspirations, and G.K. Chesterton's The Innocence of Father Brown. ii DEDICATION The work that went into this project is dedicated to my family, whose tireless support made the endeavor possible, especially to Dot, Jonathan, Nina, and Randy. To Gleason and Sandra Ward, who first introduced me to Pride and Prejudice. To PoPo and Bluebell, who may only be cats, but who have been human enough to be of great comfort through the difficult hours of a hundred visions and revisions. ____ This one goes out to the folks who very kindly asked about (and sometimes, even more kindly, did not ask about) how it was coming along. I guess it's coming along okay. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This document could not exist without the gracious faculty whose moral and academic encouragement cannot be overstated. My advisor, Daniel Stout, and my committee Ian Whittington, Jason Solinger, and Jarod Roll. Individually and corporately they supported and helped me develop this project into the best version it could be. Simple thanks seem inadequate for how important the following people have been to me finishing this project, but simple, heartfelt thanks are what I can offer: To Katie Harrison, Cori Walker, Daniel Novak, Claire Mischker, Dustin Anderson, and Joe Pellegrino. Thank you. All the mistakes and typographical errors herein are entirely mine. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract……………………………………………………………………….……..…….……..ii Dedication…………………………………………………………………….……………...….iii Acknowledgments ……………………………………………………………………....………iv Introduction: Vicar Victoria: Writing The Church Of England In Nineteenth Century Fiction……………………………………………..……....……..1 Chapter I: Institutions and Individuals: George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life And The Humanity Of The Curate…………….…………….….22 Chapter II: Profession and Vocation: Margaret Oliphant On the Changing Character Of Called Clergy………………………………..……..…..52 Chapter III: Church-Building and Church Buildings: Charlotte Mary Yonge's The Daisy Chain and The Tractarian Project…………………………...…….88 Coda: G. K. Chesterton And The Novel Clerical Detective……………………………………………………………….……..126 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………….……..148 Vita…………………………………………………………………………………….………166 v INTRODUCTION Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth Century Fiction Introduction Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance. The subjection in which his father had brought him up had given him originally great humility of manner; but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feelings of early and unexpected prosperity. A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his rights as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility. 1 Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, 48 This image of William Collins, along with David Bamber's masterful portrayal in the 1995 BBC miniseries, is likely one of the first that most people think of when they think of a clergyman in a novel. He is servile and obsequious and nonsensical; Alex Woloch calls his personality "caricatured," "the symptom and sign of minorness" (84). And he has lucked into a good living under the gift of Lady Catherine de Bourgh thanks to his excessive fawning. Mr. Collins joins a long tradition of stock or typecast clergy figures which is present in the eighteenth-century novel, but, as my dissertation shows, is radically changed during the nineteenth century. Pride and Prejudice, one of Austen's most enduring and endearing novels, was first composed sometime around 1796, was probably significantly revised around 1811, and was first published in 1813. The character Mr. Collins, cousin to Mr. Bennet (Lizzy's father), has the entail of Longbourn and his first introduction in the book is an attempt to ingratiate himself into the family by choosing one of the Bennet daughters for his wife. This would essentially (in his mind) make a compromise to prevent the family being entirely disinherited on Mr. Bennet's death. Mr. Collins's introductory letter leads Lizzy to call him "pompous" and an "oddity," and Mr. Bennet to expect him to be "quite the reverse [of sensible]" adding that "There is a mixture of servility and self-importance in his letter" (44). These first impressions prove to be incredibly accurate: "Mr. Collins [was] in fact much better fitted for a walker than a reader, [and] was extremely well pleased to close his large book and go" (49), because although he did attend "one of the universities" (48), his education was minimal at best. His interests are rather more in the 2 comforts of the world, like "a good house and very sufficient income" which now leave him only the desire to marry (48). Collins's disdain for learning and assumption that his living is a given because he has ticked the requisite boxes are clerical attitudes that will be revised in the mid- nineteenth century. Collins is repeatedly foolish, and that foolishness is not interrogated in the novel, which suggests that this kind of typecasting was common in the eighteenth century. Critic John Lauber argues that the "life of a fool appears to be an endless repetition" (511), and as a result, "Precisely this mechanical quality sometimes leads to a larger significance: the fool, being essentially the embodiment of a single trait, may become an archetypal figure" (512). In the novel, Austen takes every opportunity to let Mr. Collins display his inadequacies and his comical stock nature to readers. Showing him in polite society, he ignores propriety which dictates that he should wait to be introduced to Mr. Darcy, given the setting (a ball) and Darcy's dramatically higher social status. Instead, Collins ignores Lizzy's caution and "with a low bow he left her to attack Mr. Darcy" who "replied with an air of distant civility. Mr. Collins, however, was not discouraged from speaking again, and Mr. Darcy's contempt seemed abundantly increasing with the length of his second speech" (67). This blatant transgression of societal rules is quite different to the kind that I will address in chapter one in George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life (1857). By that point we will see that novel characters become more individualized as critics, like Ian Watt, have argued. Whereas in his own parish, a clergyman can and must interact with every member of every caste, here at the Netherfield Ball, such presumption on Mr. Collins's part is the height of inappropriate conduct. 3 Mr. Collins's ineptness at being a clergyman, (given that his time is not spent visiting parishioners or preparing sermons), is an important contrast to what we will see with later nineteenth-century clergy; Collins is all inward-focused. Austen shows us domestic life at Hunsford for the Collinses. Once they are married, Charlotte spends as much of her time (as discreetly possible) apart from him—for example she prefers a drawing room that does not afford a view of the lane which he watches like a hawk for any sign of Lady Catherine's passing by.
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