The regenerators: social criticism in late Victorian English Canada

Introduction -- The roots of modernism: Darwinism and the higher critics -- The anxieties of a moral interregnum -- Positivism, secular thought, and the religion of humanity -- Spiritualism, science of the earthly paradise -- Richard Maurice Bucke: religious heresiarch and utopian -- Toward a Christian political economy -- 'A republic of God, a Christian republic' -- 'The new city of friends': evolution, theosophy, and socialism -- 'Was Christ, after all, a social reformer?' -- The modernist pilgrim's progress -- The sacred becomes the secular

Introduction -- The roots of modernism: Darwinism and the higher critics -- The anxieties of a moral interregnum -- Positivism, secular thought, and the religion of humanity -- Spiritualism, science of the earthly paradise -- Richard Maurice Bucke: religious heresiarch and utopian -- Toward a Christian political economy -- 'A republic of God, a Christian republic' -- 'The new city of friends': evolution, theosophy, and socialism -- 'Was Christ, after all, a social reformer?' -- The modernist pilgrim's progress -- The sacred becomes the secular.