The English Cult Of Literature

Author : William R. McKelvy
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0813925711

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The English Cult of Literature by William R. McKelvy Pdf

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.

Author : Gregory Maertz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783838269818

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Literature and the Cult of Personality by Gregory Maertz Pdf

The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe’s authority, a previously hidden chapter in the intellectual history of the period ranging from the late eighteenth century to the threshold of Modernism, is the focus of Literature and the Cult of Personality. Marginal as well as canonical writers and critics figured prominently in this process, and Literature and the Cult of Personality offers insight into the mediation activities of Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Crabb Robinson, the canonical Romantic poets, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Fuller, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and others. For women writers and Jacobins, Scots, and Americans, translating Goethe served as an empowering cultural platform that challenges the myth of the self-sufficiency of British literature. Reviewing and translating German authors provided a means of gaining literary enfranchisement and offered a paradigm of literary development according to which 're-writers' become original writers through an apprenticeship of translation and reviewing. In the diverse and fascinating body of critical writing examined in this book, textual exegesis plays an unexpectedly minor role; in its place, a full-blown cult of personality emerges along with a blueprint for the ideology of hero-worship that is more fully mapped out in the cultural and political life of twentieth-century Europe.

Author : Charles LaPorte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108496155

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The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare by Charles LaPorte Pdf

How and why did Victorian culture make Shakespeare into a literary deity and his work into a secular Bible?

Author : Flor Edwards
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781683367703

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Apocalypse Child by Flor Edwards Pdf

For the first thirteen years of her life, Flor Edwards grew up in the Children of God. The group's nomadic existence was based on the belief that, as God's chosen people, they would be saved in the impending apocalypse that would envelop the rest of the world in 1993. Flor would be thirteen years old. The group's charismatic leader, Father David, kept the family on the move, from Los Angeles to Bangkok to Chicago, where they would eventually disband, leaving Flor to make sense of the foreign world of mainstream society around her. Apocalypse Child is a cathartic journey through Flor's memories of growing up within a group with unconventional views on education, religion, and sex. Whimsically referring to herself as a real life Kimmy Schmidt, Edwards's clear-eyed memoir is a story of survival in a childhood lived on the fringes.

Author : Roger Canals
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785336133

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A Goddess in Motion by Roger Canals Pdf

The current practice of the cult of María Lionza is one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela. Based on long-term fieldwork, this book explores the role of images and visual culture within the cult. By adopting a relational approach, A Goddess in Motion shows how the innumerable images of this goddess—represented as an Indian, white or mestizo woman—move constantly from objects to bodies, from bodies to dreams, and from the religion domain to the art world. In short, this book is a fascinating study that sheds light on the role of visual creativity in contemporary religious manifestations.

Author : Humberto Garcia
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421403533

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Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840 by Humberto Garcia Pdf

A corrective addendum to Edward Said’s Orientalism, this book examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed significantly to Protestant Britain’s national and imperial identity in the eighteenth century. Taking a historical view, Humberto Garcia combines a rereading of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature with original research on Anglo-Islamic relations. He finds that far from being considered foreign by the era’s thinkers, Islamic republicanism played a defining role in Radical Enlightenment debates, most significantly during the Glorious Revolution, French Revolution, and other moments of acute constitutional crisis, as well as in national and political debates about England and its overseas empire. Garcia shows that writers such as Edmund Burke, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and Percy and Mary Shelley not only were influenced by international events in the Muslim world but also saw in that world and its history a viable path to interrogate, contest, and redefine British concepts of liberty. This deft exploration of the forgotten moment in early modern history when intercultural exchange between the Muslim world and Christian West was common resituates English literary and intellectual history in the wider context of the global eighteenth century. The direct challenge it poses to the idea of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an important revision to post-9/11 narratives about a historical clash between Western democratic values and Islam.

Author : Andrew Calcutt,Richard Shephard
Publisher : Prion (GB)
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021307819

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Cult Fiction by Andrew Calcutt,Richard Shephard Pdf

What makes a novel cult?: drink and drugs; sex and rock 'n' roll?; a window on subcultures?; the ability to tap into the zeitgeist? This book provides an insight into the cult canon assessing 250 authors who have pioneered experiments in style and content, from Kathy Acker and Nelson Algren via Burroughs and Bukowski to Tom Wolfe and Irvine Welsh.

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : SRLF:E0000738492

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A-E by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Gina M. Dorré
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351875899

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Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse by Gina M. Dorré Pdf

The horse was essential to the workings of Victorian society, and its representations, which are vast, ranging, and often contradictory, comprise a vibrant cult of the horse. Examining the representational, emblematic, and rhetorical uses of horses in a diversity of nineteenth-century texts, Gina M. Dorré shows how discourses about horses reveal and negotiate anxieties related to industrialism and technology, constructions of gender and sexuality, ruptures in the social fabric caused by class conflict and mobility, and changes occasioned by national "progress" and imperial expansion. She argues that as a cultural object, the horse functions as a repository of desire and despair in a society rocked by astonishing social, economic, and technological shifts. While representations of horses abound in Victorian fiction, Gina M. Dorré's study focuses on those novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Braddon, Anna Sewell, and George Moore that engage with the most impassioned controversies concerning horses and horse-care, such as the introduction of the steam engine, popular new methods of horse-taming, debates over the tight-reining of horses, and the moral furor surrounding gambling at the race track. Her book establishes the centrality of the horse as a Victorian cultural icon and explores how through it, dominant ideologies of gender and class are created, promoted, and disrupted.

Author : C. Bloom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230390126

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Cult Fiction by C. Bloom Pdf

Here is an exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities: an investigation into the nature and theory of the contemporary mind in art and in life. Here too, the violent, the sensational and the erotic signify different facets of the modern experience played out in the gaudy pages of kitsch literature. Clive Bloom offers the reader a chance to investigate the underworld of literary production and from it find a new set of co-ordinates for questions regarding publishing and reading practices in America and Britain, ideas of genre, problems related to commercial production, concerns regarding high and low culture, the canon and censorship, as well as a discussion of the rhetoric of current critical debate. Concentrating on remembered authors as well as many long disregarded or forgotten, Cult Fiction provides a theory of kitsch art that radically alters our perceptions of literature and literary values whilst providing a panorama of an almost forgotten history: the history of pulp.

Author : Deidre Lynch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226183701

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Loving Literature by Deidre Lynch Pdf

"Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common--and perhaps the most wounding--is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachments to literature, that answer risks obscuring a more fundamental question: Why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but to love literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have long played a role in the formation of private life--that the love of literature, in other words, is neither incidental to, nor inextricable from, the history of literature. Yet at the same time, there is nothing self-evident or ahistorical about our love of literature: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history."--Publisher's Web site.

Author : Thomas R. Whissen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015021550176

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Classic Cult Fiction by Thomas R. Whissen Pdf

Essays on 50 books that have acquired a permanent underground following in the past two centuries, analyze each story, its place in its world, and the manifestations of its cultism. Animal farm, Dune, Lord of the rings, and Walden two, are among the books. Also includes an introductory survey of the cult phenomenon, general and specific bibliographies, and a chronological list, 1774-1979, that also notes books not discussed. Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become "bibles" to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past 200 years--books like The Catcher in the Rye. Fearlessly taking on "canon formation," Whissen identifies the top 50 classic cult books, first presenting an informed and witty interpretation of the phenomenon and its characteristics with examples from different cultures and periods. The individual works are each discussed relative to time and place, impact, and audience psychology and analyzed in terms of common cult attributes. A chronological listing of cult fiction adds a number of titles not chosen for the top 50.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435050025865

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015039517019

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Leah Price
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691114170

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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price Pdf

This work asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. The text explores when the coffee-table book became an object of scorn, and why law courts forbade witnesses to kiss the Bible.