Sound Sin And Conversion In Victorian England

Author : Julia Grella O'Connell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317091530

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Sound, Sin, and Conversion in Victorian England by Julia Grella O'Connell Pdf

The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature; indeed, the ubiquity of the trope galvanized the Victorian conscience and acted as a spur to social reform. In some notable examples, Julia Grella O’Connell argues, the iconography of the Victorian fallen woman was associated with music, reviving an ancient tradition conflating the practice of music with sin and the abandonment of music with holiness. The prominence of music symbolism in the socially-committed, quasi-religious paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their circle, and in the Catholic-Wagnerian novels of George Moore, gives evidence of the survival of a pictorial language linking music with sin and conversion, and shows, even more remarkably, that this language translated fairly easily into the cultural lexicon of Victorian Britain. Drawing upon music iconography, art history, patristic theology, and sensory theory, Grella O’Connell investigates female fallenness and its implications against the backdrop of the social and religious turbulence of the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : Naomi Hetherington,Rebecca Styler,Angharad Eyre,Richa Dwor,Clare Stainthorp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1478 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 These include religious fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, sermons, travel writing, religious ephemera, unpublished notebooks and pamphlet literature.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 : Christina Fuhrmann
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781638040439

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Opera and British Print Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century by Christina Fuhrmann Pdf

Recently, studies of opera, of print culture, and of music in Britain in the long nineteenth century have proliferated. This essay collection explores the multiple point of interaction among these fields. Past scholarship often used print as a simple conduit for information about opera in Britain, but these essays demonstrate that print and opera existed in a more complex symbiosis. This collection embeds opera within the culture of Britain in the long nineteenth century, a culture inundated by print. The essays explore: how print culture both disseminated and shaped operatic culture; how the businesses of opera production and publishing intertwined; how performers and impresarios used print culture to cultivate their public persona; how issues of nationalism, class, and gender impacted reception in the periodical press; and how opera intertwined with literature, not only drawing source material from novels and plays, but also as a plot element in literary works or as a point of friction in literary circles. As the growth of digital humanities increases access to print sources, and as opera scholars move away from a focus on operas as isolated works, this study points the way forward to a richer understanding of the intersections between opera and print culture.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030835156

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A Vindication of the Redhead by Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier Pdf

A Vindication of the Redhead investigates red hair in literature, art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures. This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through stereotypes, myths, legends, and literary and visual representations. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier provide a history of attitudes held by hegemonic populations toward red-haired individuals, groups, and genders from antiquity to the present. Ayres and Maier explore such diverse topics as Judeo-Christian narratives of red hair, redheads in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, red hair and gender identity, famous literary redheads such as Anne of Green Gables and Pippi Longstocking, contemporary and Neo-Victorian representations of redheads from the Black Widow to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and more. This book illuminates the symbolic significance and related ideologies of red hair constructed in mythic, religious, literary, and visual cultural discourse.

Author : John Dunlop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Christian converts from Judaism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035484430

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Memories of Gospel Triumphs Among the Jews During the Victorian Era by John Dunlop Pdf

Author : James Eli Adams
Publisher : Grolier, Incorporated
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015003010882

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Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era by James Eli Adams Pdf

Contains 627 alphabetically arranged essays that examine significant people, places, and events in the social, political, and intellectual history of Great Britain during the sixty-four-year reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901.

Author : Richard W. Vaudry
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889205710

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The Free Church in Victorian Canada, 1844-1861 by Richard W. Vaudry Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of church records, pamphlets, private papers, and periodicals, Richard Vaudry has written an authoritative study of the formation and development of the Free Church in mid-Victorian Canada. He traces the institutional development of the denomination, its intellectual life, and its attitudes to contemporary political and social questions and describes, another subjects, missionary activity, theological education, worship, and the denomination's union with the United Presbyterian Synod in 1861. This important work depicts a progressive church where men such as George Brown, Isaac Buchanan, and John Redpath could all find a home. The author argues that undergirding the life of the Free Church was an evangelical-Calvinist world view which determined the shape and direction of its activities. His book illuminates an important facet of the religious and intellectual relationship between Scotland and Canada, and should be of interest to students and scholars of Canadian and Church history.

Author : Dinah Birch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192806871

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Dinah Birch Pdf

Written by a team of more than 150 contributors working under the direction of Dinah Birch, and ranging in influence from Homer to the Mahabharata, this guide provides the reader with a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature.

Author : Rowan Strong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192540140

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Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c.1840 - c.1914 by Rowan Strong Pdf

Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c.1840 - c.1914 considers the religious component of the nineteenth-century British and Irish emigration experience. It examines the varieties of Christianity adhered to by most British and Irish emigrants in the nineteenth century, and consequently taken to their new homes in British settler colonies. Rowan Strong explores a dimension of this emigration history that has been overlooked by scholars—the development of an international emigrants' chaplaincy by the Church of England that ministered to Anglicans, Nonconformists, as well as others, including Scandinavians, Germans, Jews, and freethinkers. Using the sources of this emigrants' chaplaincy, Strong also makes extensive use of the shipboard diaries kept by emigrants themselves to give them a voice in this history. Using these sources to look at the British and Irish emigrant voyages to new homes, this study provides an analysis of the Christianity of these emigrants as they travelled by ship to British colonies. Their ships were floating villages that necessitated and facilitated religious encounters across denominational and even religious boundaries. It argues that the Church of England provided an emigrants' ministry that had the greatest longevity, breadth, and international structure of any Church in the nineteenth century. The book also examines the principal varieties of Christianity espoused by most British emigrants, and argues this religion was more central to their identity and, consequently, more significant in settler colonies than many historians have often hitherto accepted. In this way, the Church of England's emigrant chaplaincy made a major contribution to the development of a British world in settler colonies of the empire.

Author : E. G. Romine
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666754506

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The Booming Baritone Bell of England by E. G. Romine Pdf

When the Prince of Preachers steps into the open air, the result will change his ministry forever. Using Charles Spurgeon's own words, as well as contemporary accounts, E. G. Romine digs deep into the legendary pastor's unexamined legacy of open-air preaching. In The Booming Baritone Bell of England, Romine argues that Spurgeon's open-air preaching was a profound influence not only on his audience, but on Spurgeon himself. A thorough and thoughtful exploration of a neglected area of Spurgeon's ministry, Romine's exhaustively-researched book will appeal to casual readers and scholars alike.

Author : David Bebbington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191611797

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Victorian Religious Revivals by David Bebbington Pdf

Revivals are outbursts of religious enthusiasm in which there are numerous conversions. In this book the phenomenon of revival is set in its broad historical and historiographical context. David Bebbington provides detailed case-studies of awakenings that took place between 1841 and 1880 in Britain, North America and Australia, showing that the distinctive features of particular revivals were the result less of national differences than of denominational variations. These revivals occurred in many places across the globe, but revealed the shared characteristics of evangelical Protestantism. Bebbington explores the preconditions of revival, giving attention to the cultural setting of each episode as well as the form of piety displayed by the participants. No single cause can be assigned to the awakenings, but one of the chief factors behind them was occupational structure and striking instances of death were often a precipitant. Ideas were far more involved in these events than historians have normally supposed, so that the case-studies demonstrate some of the main patterns in religious thought at a popular level during the Victorian period. Laymen and women played a disproportionate part in their promotion and converts were usually drawn in large numbers from the young. There was a trend over time away from traditional spontaneity towards more organised methods sometimes entailing interdenominational co-operation.

Author : John E. McCluskey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Criticism
ISBN : MSU:31293107207049

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Realism and Romance in the Late Victorian Period by John E. McCluskey Pdf

Author : Joshua King,Winter Jade Werner
Publisher : Literature, Religion, & Postse
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814213979

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Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion by Joshua King,Winter Jade Werner Pdf

Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Author : Bradley C. S. Watson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498517560

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Western Civilization and the Academy by Bradley C. S. Watson Pdf

This volume brings together leading thinkers who offer reflections on the place of Western civilization in the academy, at a time when there is indifference or even antipathy toward the study of the West at most institutions of higher learning. Alternative narratives—including multiculturalism, diversity, and sustainability—have come to the fore in the stead of Western civilization. The present volume is designed to explore the roots, extent, and long-term consequences of this educational climate: How and why did undergraduate education turn its back on what was once an important component of its mission? To what extent has such change affected the experience of undergraduates and the ability of colleges to educate citizens of a constitutional republic? What are the likely individual and social outcomes of such a shift in educational priorities? The volume’s theme is, and will continue to be, the subject of national scholarly and media attention.

Author : Gilbert J. Hunt
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547314417

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The Late War Between the United States and Great Britain by Gilbert J. Hunt Pdf

This is a famous educational text by Gilbert J. Hunt presenting an account of the War of 1812 in the style of the King James Bible. It starts with President James Madison and the congressional declaration of war and then describes the Burning of Washington, the Battle of New Orleans, and the Treaty of Ghent.