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""Evangelical Nonconformists of the Victorian age recorded the deaths of many of their number in the monthly issues of their denominational magazines. Mary Riso has analysed these obituaries with penetration, showing sensitivity to their conventional ways of writing about deathbeds and an awareness of the changing cultural setting of attitudes to mortality. The result is a collective profile that lays bare the strongly felt priorities of these Christian groups when confronting the last enemy."" - David Bebbington, University of Stirling, UK ""Mary Riso's carefully researched book makes a significant contribution to understanding the place of Protestant Nonconformity in English society. Her work is especially helpful for showing how much Nonconformist obituaries (a flourishing genre) partook of conventional middle-class values, yet also transcended them; how much the various denominations resembled each other, yet with crucial differences; and how much Romantic currents affected Nonconformists in some ways but not in others. It is a fine book."" - Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame, USA ""Riso's careful analysis of the tropes and texture of Nonconformist obituaries, the scale of her sample, and her judicious explanations for the traits and trends that she discovers, will be of great value to students of Victorian evangelicalism, as well as to scholars concerned with nineteenth-century attitudes toward both the good death and - just as importantly - the good life."" - Martin Spence, Cornerstone University, USA

'Evangelical Nonconformists of the Victorian age recorded the deaths of many of their number in the monthly issues of their denominational magazines. Mary Riso has analysed these obituaries with penetration, showing sensitivity to their conventional ways of writing about deathbeds and an awareness of the changing cultural setting of attitudes to mortality. The result is a collective profile that lays bare the strongly felt priorities of these Christian groups when confronting the last enemy.' David Bebbington, University of Stirling, UK 'Mary Riso's carefully researched book makes a significant contribution to understanding the place of Protestant Nonconformity in English society. Her work is especially helpful for showing how much Nonconformist obituaries (a flourishing genre) partook of conventional middle-class values, yet also transcended them; how much the various denominations resembled each other, yet with crucial differences; and how much Romantic currents affected Nonconformists in some ways but not in others. It is a fine book.' Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame, USA

"""Evangelical Nonconformists of the Victorian age recorded the deaths of many of their number in the monthly issues of their denominational magazines. Mary Riso has analysed these obituaries with penetration, showing sensitivity to their conventional ways of writing about deathbeds and an awareness of the changing cultural setting of attitudes to mortality. The result is a collective profile that lays bare the strongly felt priorities of these Christian groups when confronting the last enemy."" - David Bebbington, University of Stirling, UK ""Mary Riso's carefully researched book makes a significant contribution to understanding the place of Protestant Nonconformity in English society. Her work is especially helpful for showing how much Nonconformist obituaries (a flourishing genre) partook of conventional middle-class values, yet also transcended them; how much the various denominations resembled each other, yet with crucial differences; and how much Romantic currents affected Nonconformists in some ways but not in others. It is a fine book."" - Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame, USA ""Riso's careful analysis of the tropes and texture of Nonconformist obituaries, the scale of her sample, and her judicious explanations for the traits and trends that she discovers, will be of great value to students of Victorian evangelicalism, as well as to scholars concerned with nineteenth-century attitudes toward both the good death and - just as importantly - the good life."" - Martin Spence, Cornerstone University, USA"

Evangelical Nonconformists of the Victorian age recorded the deaths of many of their number in the monthly issues of their denominational magazines. Mary Riso has analysed these obituaries with penetration, showing sensitivity to their conventional ways of writing about deathbeds and an awareness of the changing cultural setting of attitudes to mortality. The result is a collective profile that lays bare the strongly felt priorities of these Christian groups when confronting the last enemy. - David Bebbington, University of Stirling, UK Mary Riso's carefully researched book makes a significant contribution to understanding the place of Protestant Nonconformity in English society. Her work is especially helpful for showing how much Nonconformist obituaries (a flourishing genre) partook of conventional middle-class values, yet also transcended them; how much the various denominations resembled each other, yet with crucial differences; and how much Romantic currents affected Nonconformists in some ways but not in others. It is a fine book. - Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame, USA Riso's careful analysis of the tropes and texture of Nonconformist obituaries, the scale of her sample, and her judicious explanations for the traits and trends that she discovers, will be of great value to students of Victorian evangelicalism, as well as to scholars concerned with nineteenth-century attitudes toward both the good death and - just as importantly - the good life. - Martin Spence, Cornerstone University, USA

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Mary Riso is Program Coordinator for the Division of Education at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in Philosophy from Georgetown University, her M.Div. and Th.M. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and her PhD in History from the University of Stirling. Dr. Riso has worked in both scholarly publishing and academic administration. She is the author of Heroines: The Lives of Great Literary Characters and What They Have to Teach Us (Baker), which focuses on heroines from classic nineteenth-century literature.

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