Literature And Religion In Mid Victorian England

Author : C. Oulton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230504646

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Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England by C. Oulton Pdf

This book places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot in seeking to recover their response to the religious controversies of mid-nineteenth century England. While much recent criticism has tended to overlook or dismiss their religious pronouncements, this book foregrounds the religious aspect of their writing and relocates their most important work in the context of contemporary debate. The response of both writers is seen to be complex and fraught with tension.

Author : Krishan Lal Kalla
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 8170991552

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The Mid-Victorian Literature and Loss of Faith by Krishan Lal Kalla Pdf

Author : C. Oulton
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0333993373

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Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England by C. Oulton Pdf

This book places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot in seeking to recover their response to the religious controversies of mid-nineteenth century England. While much recent criticism has tended to overlook or dismiss their religious pronouncements, this book foregrounds the religious aspect of their writing and relocates their most important work in the context of contemporary debate. The response of both writers is seen to be complex and fraught with tension.

Author : Gerald Parsons,John Wolffe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719051843

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Religion in Victorian Britain by Gerald Parsons,John Wolffe Pdf

Provides an expansion of the first four volumes, containing both specially written essays and a related compilation of primary sources, drawn from the writings of the day. The text explores the wider context of religion in Victorian Britain, both in relation to the development of the Empire and its consequences. The introduction sets the scene and also provides an overview of scholarship on Victorian religion in the years since the first four volumes were published in 1988.

Author : Julie Melnyk
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015076144560

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Victorian Religion by Julie Melnyk Pdf

Religion permeated almost every aspect of Victorian life and culture, from Parliamentary politics to issues of marriage and sexuality, from class relations to literature and the life of the imagination. In order to understand Victorian culture and writings, modern readers need to understand Victorian religion in its public and its private aspects. But much in Victorian religious life can be baffling for modern readers. The sheer diversity of Victorian religious experience is one source of confusion. Also, doctrinal disputes and discoveries in science or textual criticism that loomed so large for Victorian Christians are now hard for most people to appreciate. The Anglican Church, its hierarchy, and its enormous range of ecclesiastical titles open up further opportunities for confusion. Here, Melnyk offers a lively, thorough introduction to Victorian religious life, including the period between 1828 and 1901. Making sense of the diversity of religious thought and experience in Victorian Britain, she provides readers with a clear understanding of its role in the family and for the individual, the community, and society at large. This entertaining, readable introduction to Victorian religious life and controversies is ideal for anyone interested in Victorian life, literature, and culture.

Author : Mark Knight,Emma Mason
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199277109

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Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature by Mark Knight,Emma Mason Pdf

This work introduces key debates, movements, and ideas relating to the Christian religion, and connects these to literary developments from 1750-1914. The authors provide close readings of popular texts and use these to explore complex religious ideas.

Author : Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532677960

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Religion in the Victorian Era by Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns Pdf

A comprehensive history of religion in Victorian England, covering such topics as religion and science, religion and society, the press, literature and art, worship, new critical methods, federation and reunion, showing both the relationship between the churches and the society in which they existed and also the major movements within the churches.

Author : Hilary Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521073111

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Beauty and Belief by Hilary Fraser Pdf

This study is an important contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England which examines the religio-aesthetic theories of some central writers of the time. Dr Fraser begins with a discussion of the aesthetic dimensions of Tractarian theology and then proceeds to the orthodox certainties of Hopkins' theory of inscape, Ruskin's and Arnold's moralistic criticism of literature and the visual arts, and Pater's and Wilde's faith in a religion of art. The author identifies significant cultural and historical conditions which determined the interdependence of aesthetic and religious sensibility in the period. She argues that certain tensions in the thought of Wordsworth and Coleridge - tensions between poetry and religion, rebellion and reaction, individualism and authority - continued to manifest themselves throughout the Victorian age, and as society became increasingly democratic, religion in turn became increasingly personal and secular.

Author : Open University
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719025133

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Religion in Victorian Britain: Controversies by Open University Pdf

Author : Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:186746850

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Religion in the Victorian Era by Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns Pdf

Author : Michaela Giebelhausen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351555289

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Painting the Bible by Michaela Giebelhausen Pdf

Painting the Bible is the first book to investigate the transformations that religious painting underwent in mid-Victorian England. It charts the emergence of a Protestant realist painting in a period of increasing doubt, scientific discovery and biblical criticism. The book analyzes the position of religious painting in academic discourse and assesses the important role Pre-Raphaelite work played in redefining painting for mid-Victorian audiences. This original study brings together a wide range of material from high art and popular culture. It locates the controversy over the religious works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in debates about academicism, revivalism and caricature. It also investigates William Holman Hunt's radical, orientalist-realist approach to biblical subject matter which offered an important updating of the image of Christ that chimed with the principles of liberal Protestantism. The book will appeal to scholars and students across disciplines such as art history, literature, history and cultural studies. Its original research, rigorous analysis and accessible style will make it essential reading for anyone interested in questions of representation and belief in mid-Victorian England.

Author : Juliet John
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191082108

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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture by Juliet John Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (on 'Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology', 'Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief', and 'Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures', the volume is sub-divided into 9 sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and established scholars.

Author : Barbara Dennis,David Skilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317268642

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Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England by Barbara Dennis,David Skilton Pdf

First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, religious debate and secular thought, education; leisure and attitudes to the arts, and the Woman Question. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Author : Robin Gilmour
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317871316

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The Victorian Period by Robin Gilmour Pdf

This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics and art. It examines the developments which radically changed the intellectual climate and illustrates how their manifestations permeated Victorian literature. The author begins by establishing the social and institutional framework in which intellectual and cultural life developed. Special attention is paid to the reform agenda of new groups which challenged traditional society, and this perspective informs Gilmour's discussion throughout the book. He assesses Victorian religion, science and politics in their own terms and in relation to the larger cultural politics of the middle-class challenge to traditionalism. Familiar topics, such as the Oxford Movement and Darwinism, are seen afresh, and those once neglected areas which are now increasingly important to modern scholars are brought into clear focus, such as Victorian agnosticism, the politics of gender, 'Englishness', and photography. The most innovative feature of this compelling study is the prominence given to the contemporary preoccupation with time. The Victorians' time-hauntedness emerges as the defining feature of their civilisation - the remote time of geology and evolution, the public time of history, the private time of autobiography.

Author : Cynthia Scheinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139434225

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Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England by Cynthia Scheinberg Pdf

Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity. Further, Scheinberg argues that Jewish and Christian women poets had a special interest in Jewish discourse; calling on images from Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures, their poetry created complex arguments about the relationships between Jewish and female artistic identity. She suggests that Jewish and Christian women used poetry as a site for creative and original theological interpretation, and that they entered into dialogue through their poetry about their own and each other's religious and artistic identities. This book's interdisciplinary methodology calls on poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little read Anglo-Jewish primary sources.