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Author | : Christopher Lane |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300168810 |
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The Victorian era was the first great ";Age of Doubt"; and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the Bible had taught them about the world. In "The Age of Doubt," distinguished scholar Christopher Lane tells the fascinating story of a society under strain as virtually all aspects of life changed abruptly. In deft portraits of scientific, literary, and intellectual icons who challenged the prevailing religious orthodoxy, from Robert Chambers and Anne Bronte; to Charles Darwin and Thomas H. Huxley, Lane demonstrates how they and other Victorians succeeded in turning doubt from a religious sin into an ethical necessity. The dramatic adjustment of Victorian society has echoes today as technology, science, and religion grapple with moral issues that seemed unimaginable even a decade ago. Yet the Victorians'; crisis of faith generated a far more searching engagement with religious belief than the ";new atheism"; that has evolved today. More profoundly than any generation before them, the Victorians came to view doubt as inseparable from belief, thought, and debate, as well as a much-needed antidote to fanaticism and unbridled certainty. By contrast, a look at today';s extremes-;from the biblical literalists behind the Creation Museum to the dogmatic rigidity of Richard Dawkins';s atheism-;highlights our modern-day inability to embrace doubt."
Author | : Richard J. Helmstadter |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780804716024 |
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Author | : Lance St. John Butler |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Timothy Larsen |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2006-11-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191537055 |
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The Victorian crisis of faith has dominated discussions of religion and the Victorians. Stories are frequently told of prominent Victorians such as George Eliot losing their faith. This crisis is presented as demonstrating the intellectual weakness of Christianity as it was assaulted by new lines of thought such as Darwinism and biblical criticism. This study serves as a corrective to that narrative. It focuses on freethinking and Secularist leaders who came to faith. As sceptics, they had imbibed all the latest ideas that seemed to undermine faith; nevertheless, they went on to experience a crisis of doubt, and then to defend in their writings and lectures the intellectual cogency of Christianity. The Victorian crisis of doubt was surprisingly large. Telling this story serves to restore its true proportion and to reveal the intellectual strength of faith in the nineteenth century.
Author | : Caroline Levine |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780813922171 |
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Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism".
Author | : SarahGlendon Lyons |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1351577050 |
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How did literary aestheticism emerge in Victorian Britain, with its competing models of religious doubt and visions of secularisation? For Lyons, the aestheticism developed and progressively revised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) and Walter Pater (1839-1894) illuminates the contradictory impulses of modern secularism: on the one hand, a desire to cast itself as a form of neutrality or disinterestedness; on the other, a desire to affirm 'this world' as the place of human flourishing or even enchantment. The standard narrative of a 'crisis of faith' does not do justice to the fissured, uncertain quality of Victorian visions of secularisation. Precisely because it had the status of a confusing hypothesis rather than a self-evident reality, it provoked not only dread and melancholia, but also forms of fantasy. Within this context Lyons gives a fundamentally new account of the aims and nature of Victorian aestheticism, taking as a focus its deceptively simple claim that art is for art's sake first of all.
Author | : Elisabeth Jay |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Leah Price |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2012-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400842182 |
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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Author | : Victoria. Supreme Court |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1126 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN | : |
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Total Pages | : 1126 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN | : |
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