A Victorian Curate
A Study of the Life and Career of the Rev. Dr John Hunt
The Rev. Dr John Hunt (1827-1907) was not a typical clergyman in the Victorian Church of England. He was Scottish, of lowly birth, and lacking both social connections and private means. He was also a witty and fluent intellectual, whose publications stood alongside the most eminent of his peers during a period when theology was being redefined in the light of Darwin’s Origin of Species and other radical scientific advances.
Hunt attracted notoriety and conflict as well as admiration and resp...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 16 septembre 2021
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-7418-4
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2021
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-80064-152-5
Nombre de pages : xii-249
The Rev. Dr John Hunt (1827-1907) was not a typical clergyman in the Victorian Church of England. He was Scottish, of lowly birth, and lacking both social connections and private means. He was also a witty and fluent intellectual, whose publications stood alongside the most eminent of his peers during a period when theology was being redefined in the light of Darwin’s Origin of Species and other radical scientific advances.
Hunt attracted notoriety and conflict as well as admiration and respect: he was the subject of articles in Punch and in the wider press concerning his clandestine dissection of a foetus in the crypt of a City church, while his Essay on Pantheism was proscribed by the Roman Catholic Church. He had many skirmishes with incumbents, both evangelical and catholic, and was dismissed from several of his curacies.
This book analyses his career in London and St Ives (Cambs.) through the lens of his autobiographical narrative, Clergymen Made Scarce (1867). David Yeandle has examined a little-known copy of the text that includes manuscript annotations by Eliza Hunt, the wife of the author, which offer unique insight into the many anonymous and pseudonymous references in the text.
A Victorian Curate: A Study of the Life and Career of the Rev. Dr John Hunt is an absorbing personal account of the corruption and turmoil in the Church of England at this time. It will appeal to anyone interested in this history, the relationship between science and religion in the nineteenth century, or the role of the curate in Victorian England.
David Yeandle’s principal teaching interests are in the History of the German Language, from the earliest times to the present day and German translation. He taught for over thirty years at King’s College London, where he was Professor and Head of Department before taking early retirement in 2010. He has published widely on linguistic and medieval topics, including medieval literature and the sociolinguistics of German. In addition to journal articles and essays, he is the author of three books. He has co-edited and contributed to volumes on Old High German, lexicography and lexicology. He was project leader and editor of the AHRC-funded line-by-line bibliography of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, the second edition of which was published online in 2008 (http://tares.uni-trier.de/Lexcoll/). He is currently working on 19th-century ecclesiastical history.
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