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Author | : Charles LaPorte |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-11-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813931657 |
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Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible charts the impact of post-Enlightenment biblical criticism on English literary culture. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a widespread reevaluation of biblical inspiration, in which the Bible’s poetic nature came to be seen as an integral part of its religious significance. Understandably, then, many poets who followed this interpretative revolution—including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning—came to reconceive their highest vocational ambitions: if the Bible is essentially poetry, then modern poetry might perform a cultural role akin to that of scripture. This context equally illuminates the aims and achievements of famous Victorian unbelievers such as Arthur Hugh Clough and George Eliot, who also responded enthusiastically to the poetic ideal of an inspired text. Building upon a recent and ongoing reevaluation of religion as a vital aspect of Victorian culture, Charles LaPorte shows the enduring relevance of religion in a period usually associated with its decline. In doing so, he helps to delineate the midcentury shape of a literary dynamic that is generally better understood in Romantic poetry of the earlier part of the century. The poets he examines all wrestled with modern findings about the Bible's fortuitous historical composition, yet they owed much of their extraordinary literary success to their ability to capitalize upon the progress of avant-garde biblical interpretation. This book's revisionary and provocative thesis speaks not only to the course of English poetics but also to the logic of nineteenth-century literary hierarchies and to the continuing evolution of religion in the modern era. Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Author | : Charles LaPorte |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813931584 |
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Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible charts the impact of post-Enlightenment biblical criticism on English literary culture. --from publisher description.
Author | : Timothy Larsen |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2011-01-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191614335 |
Download A People of One Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Although the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. They habitually read the Bible, quoted it, adopted its phraseology as their own, thought in its categories, and viewed their own lives and experiences through a scriptural lens. This astonishingly deep, relentless, and resonant engagement with the Bible was true across the religious spectrum from Catholics to Unitarians and beyond. The scripture-saturated culture of nineteenth-century England is displayed by Timothy Larsen in a series of lively case studies of representative figures ranging from the Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry to the liberal Anglican pioneer of nursing Florence Nightingale to the Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon to the Jewish author Grace Aguilar. Even the agnostic man of science T. H. Huxley and the atheist leaders Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant were thoroughly and profoundly preoccupied with the Bible. Serving as a tour of the diversity and variety of nineteenth-century views, Larsen's study presents the distinctive beliefs and practices of all the major Victorian religious and sceptical traditions from Anglo-Catholics to the Salvation Army to Spiritualism, while simultaneously drawing out their common, shared culture as a people of one book.
Author | : Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1845 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Susan E. Colon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2012-02-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441148264 |
Download Victorian Parables Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the prodigal son, and Lazarus and the rich man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and plots of biblical parables for a variety of authoritative, interpretive, and subversive effects. However, scholars of parables in literature have often overlooked the 19th-century novel, assuming that realism bears no relation to the subversive, iconoclastic genre of parable. In this book Susan E. Colòn shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral ideas. Against the common assumption that the genres of realism and parable are polar opposites, this study explores how Victorian novels, despite their length, verisimilitude, and multi-plot complexity, can become parables in ways that imitate, interpret, and challenge their biblical sources.
Author | : Charles LaPorte |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2020-11-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108853463 |
Download The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the Victorian era, William Shakespeare's work was often celebrated as a sacred text: a sort of secular English Bible. Even today, Shakespeare remains a uniquely important literary figure. Yet Victorian criticism took on religious dimensions that now seem outlandish in retrospect. Ministers wrote sermons based upon Shakespearean texts and delivered them from pulpits in Christian churches. Some scholars crafted devotional volumes to compare his texts directly with the Bible's. Still others created Shakespearean societies in the faith that his inspiration was not like that of other playwrights. Charles LaPorte uses such examples from the Victorian cult of Shakespeare to illustrate the complex relationship between religion, literature and secularization. His work helps to illuminate a curious but crucial chapter in the history of modern literary studies in the West, as well as its connections with Biblical scholarship and textual criticism.
Author | : Richard J. Helmstadter |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780804716024 |
Download Victorian Faith in Crisis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author | : Edward Killoran Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 966 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Download Victorian Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A companion volume to Victorian Prose, edited by Frederick Willam Roe.
Author | : Joshua King |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2022-04-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780814255292 |
Download Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Author | : William R. McKelvy |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813925714 |
Download The English Cult of Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What constitutes reading? This is the question William McKelvy asks in The English Cult of Literature. Is it a theory of interpretation or a physical activity, a process determined by hermeneutic destiny or by paper, ink, hands, and eyes? McKelvy seeks to transform the nineteenth-century field of "Religion and Literature" into "Reading and Religion," emphasizing both the material and the institutional contexts for each. In doing so, he hopes to recover the ways in which modern literary authority developed in dialogue with a politically reconfigured religious authority.The received wisdom has been that England's literary tradition was modernity's most promising religion because the established forms of Christianity, wounded in the Enlightenment, inevitably gave up their hold on the imagination and on the political sphere. Through a series of case studies and analysis of a diverse range of writing, this work gives life to a very different story, one that shows literature assuming a religious vocation in concert with an increasingly unencumbered freedom of religious confession and the making of a reading nation. In the process the author shifts attention away from the idea of the literary critic in favor of considering the historic role of religious professionals in shaping and contesting the authority of print.Indebted to recent findings of book history and newer historiographies at odds with conventional secularization theory, this work makes an interdisciplinary contribution to revising the existing models for understanding change in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.