Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian NovelThis new study explores how evangelicalism played a vital role in the development of the Victorian novel. In contrast to those who see the evangelical movement as trivial to our histories of the novel and part of the losing side in religion's battle with secularity, Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel examines fiction by major writers of the nineteenth century Thackeray, Dickens, Wood, MacDonald, Collins, and Butler and reveals the