By the time David Copperfield appeared in 1850, most Victorians felt that heaven was unimaginable without their worldly identity and relationships. But while evangelical ministers and authors of death-consolation literature promised a social and marital reunion in heaven, they also worried about the status of remarriage in an eternally present afterlife. this essay first examines a variety of complex Victorian responses to the promise and problem of a conjugal heaven and then unfolds the eschatology of
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McAleavey (2010) studied this question.