Roman Catholic Saints And Early Victorian Literature

Author : Devon Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317061809

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Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature by Devon Fisher Pdf

Offering readings of nineteenth-century travel narratives, works by Tractarians, the early writings of Charles Kingsley, and the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, Devon Fisher examines representations of Roman Catholic saints in Victorian literature to assess both the relationship between conservative thought and liberalism and the emergence of secular culture during the period. The run-up to Victoria's coronation witnessed a series of controversial liberal reforms. While many early Victorians considered the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts (1828), the granting of civil rights to Roman Catholics (1829), and the extension of the franchise (1832) significant advances, for others these three acts signaled a shift in English culture by which authority in matters spiritual and political was increasingly ceded to individuals. Victorians from a variety of religious perspectives appropriated the lives of Roman Catholic saints to create narratives of English identity that resisted the recent cultural shift towards private judgment. Paradoxically, conservative Victorians' handling of the saints and the saints' lives in their sheer variety represented an assertion of individual authority that ultimately led to a synthesis of liberalism and conservatism and was a key feature of an emergent secular state characterized not by disbelief but by a range of possible beliefs.

Author : Royal W. Rhodes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012404195

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The Lion and the Cross by Royal W. Rhodes Pdf

"In this comprehensive study interrelating religious thought, history, and the topical literature of the Victorian period, Royal W. Rhodes examines more than 130 religious (and some nonreligious) novels by major and minor writers set in early Christian centuries. These Early Church novels were employed by churchly writers of the Victorian period to treat contemporary religious questions under the disguise of antiquity and are thus important sources for the study of Church history." "As various parties within the Anglican Church, Dissenters, and Roman Catholics exploited this subgenre of Victorian fiction for polemical purposes, churchmanship played a critical role in how the novelists re-created the first six hundred years of Christian history. Even secular writers like Wilkie Collins and Walter Pater used this format to address broad theological questions, such as the practice of celibacy, confession, ritualism, and the relation of Church and State. Other writers of Early Church novels discussed in this study include John Henry Newman, Charles Kingsley, Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Moore, John Mason Neale, Charlotte Yonge, Frederic Farrar, and Marie Corelli." "Rhodes's volume will be of great interest and significance to students and scholars of both Victorian literature and theological history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Juliet John
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268076382

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Victorian Reformations by Miriam Elizabeth Burstein Pdf

In Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1900, Miriam Elizabeth Burstein analyzes the ways in which Christian novelists across the denominational spectrum laid claim to popular genres—most importantly, the religious historical novel—to narrate the aftershocks of 1829, the year of Catholic Emancipation. Both Protestant and Catholic popular novelists fought over the ramifications of nineteenth-century Catholic toleration for the legacy of the Reformation. But despite the vast textual range of this genre, it remains virtually unknown in literary studies. Victorian Reformations is the first book to analyze how “high” theological and historical debates over the Reformation’s significance were popularized through the increasingly profitable venue of Victorian religious fiction. By putting religious apologists and controversialists at center stage, Burstein insists that such fiction—frequently dismissed as overly simplistic or didactic—is essential for our understanding of Victorian popular theology, history, and historical novels. Burstein reads “lost” but once exceptionally popular religious novels—for example, by Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Lady Georgiana Fullerton, and Emily Sarah Holt—against the works of such now-canonical figures as Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, while also drawing on material from contemporary sermons, histories, and periodicals. Burstein demonstrates how these novels, which popularized Christian visions of change for a mass readership, call into question our assumptions about the nineteenth-century historical novel. In addition, her research and her conceptual frameworks have the potential to influence broader paradigms in Victorian studies and novel criticism.

Author : Joanne Parker,Corinna Wagner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191648274

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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism by Joanne Parker,Corinna Wagner Pdf

In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages'. The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance) was both pervasive and multi-faceted. This 'medievalism' led, for instance, to the rituals and ornament of the Medieval Catholic church being reintroduced to Anglicanism. It led to the Saxon Witan being celebrated as a prototypical representative parliament. It resulted in Viking raiders being acclaimed as the forefathers of the British navy. And it encouraged innumerable nineteenth-century men to cultivate the superlative beards we now think of as typically 'Victorian'—in an attempt to emulate their Anglo-Saxon forefathers. Different facets of medieval life, and different periods before the Renaissance, were utilized in nineteenth-century Britain for divergent political and cultural agendas. Medievalism also became a dominant mode in Victorian art and architecture, with 75 per cent of churches in England built on a Gothic rather than a classical model. And it was pervasive in a wide variety of literary forms, from translated sagas to pseudo-medieval devotional verse to triple-decker novels. Medievalism even transformed nineteenth-century domesticity: while only a minority added moats and portcullises to their homes, the medieval-style textiles produced by Morris and Co. decorated many affluent drawing rooms. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism is the first work to examine in full the fascinating phenomenon of 'medievalism' in Victorian Britain. Covering art, architecture, religion, literature, politics, music, and social reform, the Handbook also surveys earlier forms of antiquarianism that established the groundwork for Victorian movements. In addition, this collection addresses the international context, by mapping the spread of medievalism across Europe, South America, and India, amongst other places.

Author : Clare A. Simmons
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 9781843845737

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Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-century British Culture by Clare A. Simmons Pdf

A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages.

Author : Molly Youngkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137566140

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British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910 by Molly Youngkin Pdf

Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Youngkin shows the oftentimes limited but pervasive representations of ancient Egyptian women in their written and visual works. Images of Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British writers such as George Eliot and Edith Cooper came to represent female emancipation.

Author : Mary Heimann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 019820597X

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Catholic Devotion in Victorian England by Mary Heimann Pdf

Heimann offers a controversial analysis of the influence of long-established recusant devotions and attitudes in the new context of the reestablishment of Roman Catholicism in England from the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : Victorians Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCLA:L0103572483

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Victorians Institute Journal by Victorians Institute Pdf

Author : Jill Muller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135886431

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Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism by Jill Muller Pdf

This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context as a Victorian convert to Catholicism.

Author : Monika Mazurek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351744737

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The Unknown Relatives by Monika Mazurek Pdf

The Unknown Relatives analyses a large body of Victorian literary texts dealing with the topic of Catholicism and Catholics, written from the non-Catholic perspective. The readings of these texts are inspired by psychoanalytic criticism, primarily by the work of Freud and Kristeva. Kristeva’s work on abjection, the paradoxical repulsion mixed with attraction, provides the framework for the first part of the book, which argues that Victorian depictions of Catholicism exhibit the same mixture of fascination and attraction. The second part of the book is constructed largely around Freud’s idea of the uncanny, showing how Catholicism was cast in the role of the archaic religion, profoundly strange and yet at the same time somehow familiar. The book includes the readings of a number of Victorian authors, both canonical (Charlotte Brontë, William Thackeray, Charles Dickens) and lesser-known ones (George Borrow, John Shorthouse, Mrs Humphry Ward). The book will be of interest to scholars of cultural, literary and religious studies, as well as to readers interested in the matters of religion in literature and religious prejudice.

Author : Charles Kingsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101020127872

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The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley Pdf

Author : Maureen Moran
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846310706

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Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature by Maureen Moran Pdf

Exotic, corrupt, and dangerous, Roman Catholicism functioned in the popular Victorian imagination as a highly sensationalized and implacably anti-English enemy. Maureen Moran’s lively study considers a wide range of key authors—including Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot, as well as a number of non-canonical writers—to give a detailed account of the cultural tensions between Catholics and Protestants. Moran shows that rather than representing a traditional religious schism, the demonizing of Catholics resulted from secular fears over crime, sex, and violence.

Author : Judy Ann Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000062335

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English Readers of Catholic Saints by Judy Ann Ford Pdf

In 1484, William Caxton, the first publisher of English-language books, issued The Golden Legend, a translation of the most well-known collection of saints’ lives in Europe. This study analyzes the molding of the Legenda aurea into a book that powerfully attracted the English market. Modifications included not only illustrations and changes in the arrangement of chapters, but also the addition of lives of British saints and translated excerpts from the Bible, showing an appetite for vernacular scripture and stories about England’s past. The publication history of Caxton’s Golden Legend reveals attitudes towards national identity and piety within the context of English print culture during the half century prior to the Henrician Reformation.

Author : Charles Kingsley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664587428

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All Saints' Day and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley Pdf

In 'All Saints' Day and Other Sermons', readers are presented with a collection of sermons delivered by Charles Kingsley, a man who wore many hats during his lifetime - from a priest of the Church of England, to a professor, social reformer, historian, novelist, and poet. As a Christian socialist, Kingsley's works are of particular interest to those interested in exploring issues of social justice and labor reforms. His efforts to form labor cooperatives may have failed, but they paved the way for later successes. Furthermore, Kingsley's friendship and correspondence with Charles Darwin adds another layer of intrigue to his life and works.