Emily Bronte And The Religious Imagination

Author : Simon Marsden
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441168139

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Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination by Simon Marsden Pdf

Readers of Emily Brontë's poetry and of Wuthering Heights have seen in their author, variously, a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic, or a visionary "mystic of the moors". Rather than seeking to resolve this matter, Emily Brontë and the Religious Imagination suggests that such conflicting readings are the product of tensions, conflicts and ambiguities within the texts themselves. Rejecting the idea that a single, coherent set of religious doctrines are to be found in Brontë's work, this book argues that Wuthering Heights and the poems dramatise individual experiences of faith in the context of a world in which such faith is always conflicted, always threatened. Brontë's work dramatises the experience of imaginative faith that is always contested by the presence of other voices, other worldviews. Her characters cling to visionary faith in the face of death and mortality, awaiting and anticipating a final vindication, an eschatological fulfilment that always lies in a future beyond the scope of the text.

Author : Simon Marsden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Ambiguity in literature
ISBN : 1472543548

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Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination by Simon Marsden Pdf

Author : Sheona Beaumont,Madeleine Emerald Thiele
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031215544

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John Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Religious Imagination by Sheona Beaumont,Madeleine Emerald Thiele Pdf

This volume presents a collection of essays by leading experts which examine nineteenth century ideas about Christian theology, art, architecture, restoration, and curatorial practice. The volume unveils the importance of John Ruskin’s writing for today’s audience, and allies it with the dynamism of the Pre-Raphaelite religious imagination. Ruskin’s drawings and daguerreotypes, as well as Pre-Raphaelite paintings, stained glass, and engravings, are shown to be alive with visual theology: artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and Evelyn de Morgan illuminate aspects of faith and aesthetics. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume encourages reflection upon praise, truth, and beauty. The aesthetic conversations between Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites themselves become a form of ‘sacra conversazione’.

Author : Alexandra Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107154810

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The Brontës and the Idea of the Human by Alexandra Lewis Pdf

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Author : Jonathan Greenaway
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501351792

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Theology, Horror and Fiction by Jonathan Greenaway Pdf

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize Surpassing scholarly discourse surrounding the emergent secularism of the 19th century, Theology, Horror and Fiction argues that the Victorian Gothic is a genre fascinated with the immaterial. Through close readings of popular Gothic novels across the 19th century – Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray, among others – Jonathan Greenaway demonstrates that to understand and read Gothic novels is to be drawn into the discourses of theology. Despite the differences in time, place and context that informed the writers of these stories, the Gothic novel is irreducibly fascinated with religious and theological ideas, and this angle has been often overlooked in broader scholarly investigations into the intersections between literature and religion. Combining historical theological awareness with interventions into contemporary theology, particularly around imaginative apologetics and theology and the arts, Jonathan Greenaway offers the beginnings of a modern theology of the Gothic.

Author : Martin Middeke,Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110376715

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Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900 by Martin Middeke,Monika Pietrzak-Franger Pdf

Part I of this authoritative handbook offers systematic essays, which deal with major historical, social, philosophical, political, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the English novel between 1830 and 1900. The essays offer a wide scope of aspects such as the Industrial Revolution, religion and secularisation, science, technology, medicine, evolution or the increasing mediatisation of the lifeworld. Part II, then, leads through the work of more than 25 eminent Victorian novelists. Each of these chapters provides both historical and biographical contextualisation, overview, close reading and analysis. They also encourage further research as they look upon the work of the respective authors at issue from the perspectives of cultural and literary theory.

Author : Rebecca Styler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351272261

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Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society by Rebecca Styler Pdf

This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources. These include religious fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, sermons, travel writing, religious ephemera, unpublished notebooks and pamphlet literature. Spanning the long nineteenth century (c.1789–1914), the resource departs from older models of ‘the Victorian crisis of faith’ in order to open up new ways of conceptualising religion. This first volume looks at ‘Traditions’, offering an overview of the different religious traditions and denominations present in Britain during this period.

Author : Naomi Hetherington,Rebecca Styler,Angharad Eyre,Richa Dwor,Clare Stainthorp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1478 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351272353

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Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society by Naomi Hetherington,Rebecca Styler,Angharad Eyre,Richa Dwor,Clare Stainthorp Pdf

This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources. These include religious fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, sermons, travel writing, religious ephemera, unpublished notebooks and pamphlet literature. Spanning the long nineteenth century (c.1789–1914), the resource departs from older models of ‘the Victorian crisis of faith’ in order to open up new ways of conceptualising religion. A key concern of the resource is to integrate non-Christian religions into our understanding and representations of religious life in this period. Each volume is framed around a different meaning of the term ‘religion’. Volume one on ‘Traditions’ offers an overview of the different religious traditions and denominations present in Britain in this period. Volume two on ‘Mission and Reform’ considers the social and political importance of religious faith and practice as expressed through foreign and domestic mission and philanthropic and political movements at home and abroad. Volume three turns to ‘Religious Feeling’ as an important and distinct category for understanding the ways in which religion is embodied and expressed in culture. Volume four on ‘Disbelief and New Beliefs’ explores the transformation of the religious landscape of Britain and its imperial territories during the nineteenth century as a result of key cultural and intellectual forces. The resource is aimed primarily at researchers and students working within the fields of literature and social and religious history. It supplies an interpretative context for sources in the form of explanatory headnotes to each source or group of sources and volume introductions that explore overarching themes. Each volume can be read independently, but they work together to elucidate the complex and multi-faceted nature of nineteenth-century religious life.

Author : Eleanor Beal,Jon Greenaway
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786834416

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Horror and Religion by Eleanor Beal,Jon Greenaway Pdf

Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and religion have interacted over themes of race and sexuality; the texts under discussion chart the way in which the religious imagination has been deployed over the course of Horror fiction’s development, from a Gothic mode based in theological polemics to a more distinct genre in the twenty-first century that explores the afterlife of religion. Horror and Religion focuses on the Horror genre and its characteristics of the body, sexuality, trauma and race, and the essays explore how Horror fiction has shifted emphasis from anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism to incorporate less understood historical and theological issues, such as the ‘Death of God’ and the spiritual destabilisation of the secular. By confronting spiritual conflicts in Horror fiction, this volume offers new perspectives on what we traditionally perceive as horrifying.

Author : Diane Long Hoeveler,Deborah Denenholz Morse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118405475

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A Companion to the Brontës by Diane Long Hoeveler,Deborah Denenholz Morse Pdf

A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual texts, historical and cultural contexts, reception studies, and the family’s continuing influence Features in-depth articles written by well-known and emerging scholars from around the world Addresses topics such as the Gothic tradition, film and dramatic adaptation, psychoanalytic approaches, the influence of religion, and political and legal questions of the day – from divorce and female disinheritance, to worker reform Incorporates recent work in Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, and race and gender studies

Author : Joel D. S. Rasmussen,Judith E. Wolfe,Johannes Zachhuber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198718406

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The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought by Joel D. S. Rasmussen,Judith E. Wolfe,Johannes Zachhuber Pdf

Offering a comprehensive assessment of the various ways in which Christian thought has found expression during the long 19th century, this handbook examines how it has been influenced by contemporaneous scientific, social, political, and cultural developments; and how it has in its turn impacted all areas of Western life and thought during this period. Its contributors accept that, contrary to earlier views, the 19th century was less a period of secularisation than one of dynamic, innovative, and diverse transformations of Christian thought, even if these were often expressed in new, and often controversial forms. Consequently, the volume starts with a section on 'paradigm shifts' underlying intellectual engagements with Christianity during the period, and proceeds to explorations of the role Christian thought played in various aspects of 19th-century society and culture.

Author : Emily Brontë
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192572189

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Pdf

'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!' Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through the slave-trading port of Liverpool. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff and Catherine find refuge in each other when the household falls into the hands of Catherine's dissolute older brother. Their bond deepens as they escape together from the violence and stern religion of their home to the Yorkshire moors. But the story of Catherine and Heathcliff's attachment transforms from intimacy to strife when Catherine marries the refined Edgar Linton. The ensuing story of violence and thwarted passion is one of the most powerful tales of the gothic tradition, a literary mode from which Emily Brontë wrings all of its terrifying potential. A regional novel with a global reach, a work of sensational effects with a startling ethical core, Wuthering Heights is both a romantic melodrama and wrenching study of the difficulty of escaping from the legacies of violence. This edition reproduces the authoritative Clarendon text, with revised and expanded notes and a selection from the poems of Emily Brontë.

Author : Jo Carruthers,Andrew Tate
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039119257

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Spiritual Identities by Jo Carruthers,Andrew Tate Pdf

This collection of essays considers the return of the religious in contemporary literary studies. In the twenty-first century it is now possible to detect a new sacred 'turn' in thought and writing. For some writers, this post-secular identity plays itself out in both a recuperation of religious traditions (Catholicism, Puritanism, Judaism) and a re-invention of the religious imaginary (apophaticism, messianism, apocalypticism, fundamentalism). In literary studies, the implications of the post-secular are revitalizing critical engagement with canonical works and fuelling the reclaiming of neglected writings as questions of the construction of spiritual identities come once again to the fore.

Author : Marianne Thormählen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139463690

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The Brontës and Education by Marianne Thormählen Pdf

All the seven Brontë novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Brontë sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this was the first full-length book on the subject when it was published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and schools engage with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century, drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence about educational theory and practice in the lifetime of the Brontës. This study offers much information both about the Brontës and their books and about the most urgent issue in early nineteenth-century British social politics: the education of the people, of all classes and both sexes.

Author : Marianne Thormählen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139426626

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The Brontës and Religion by Marianne Thormählen Pdf

This is the first full-length study of religion in the fiction of the Brontës. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the Anglican church in the nineteenth century, Marianne Thormählen shows how the Brontës' familiarity with the contemporary debates on doctrinal, ethical and ecclesiastical issues informs their novels. Divided into four parts, the book examines denominations, doctrines, ethics and clerics in the work of the Brontës. The analyses of the novels clarify the constant interplay of human and Divine love in the development of the novels. While demonstrating that the Brontës' fiction usually reflects the basic tenets of Evangelical Anglicanism, the book emphasises the characteristic spiritual freedom and audacity of the Brontës. Lucid and vigorously written, it will open up new perspectives for Brontë specialists and enthusiasts alike on a fundamental aspect of the novels greatly neglected in recent decades.