1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460181803321

Autore

Lane Christopher <1966->

Titolo

The age of doubt [[electronic resource] ] : tracing the roots of our religious uncertainty / / Christopher Lane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-05787-5

9786613057877

0-300-16881-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

234/.23094209034

Soggetti

Faith

Theology, Doctrinal - England - History - 19th century

Faith - History of doctrines - 19th century

Belief and doubt

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : putting faith in doubt -- Miracles and skeptics -- Stunned Victorians look backward and inward -- Feeling doubt, then drinking it -- Natural history sparks honest doubt -- Uncertainty becomes a way of life -- Faith-based certainty meets the gospel of doubt.

Sommario/riassunto

The Victorian era was the first great "Age of Doubt" and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the Bible had taught them about the world. In The Age of Doubt, distinguished scholar Christopher Lane tells the fascinating story of a society under strain as virtually all aspects of life changed abruptly.In deft portraits of scientific, literary, and intellectual icons who challenged the prevailing religious orthodoxy, from Robert Chambers and Anne Brontë to Charles Darwin and Thomas H. Huxley, Lane demonstrates how they and other Victorians succeeded in turning doubt from a religious sin into an ethical necessity.The dramatic adjustment of Victorian society has



echoes today as technology, science, and religion grapple with moral issues that seemed unimaginable even a decade ago. Yet the Victorians' crisis of faith generated a far more searching engagement with religious belief than the "new atheism" that has evolved today. More profoundly than any generation before them, the Victorians came to view doubt as inseparable from belief, thought, and debate, as well as a much-needed antidote to fanaticism and unbridled certainty. By contrast, a look at today's extremes-from the biblical literalists behind the Creation Museum to the dogmatic rigidity of Richard Dawkins's atheism-highlights our modern-day inability to embrace doubt.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387402903316

Autore

Sofford Arthur <fl. 1618-1641.>

Titolo

Sofford 1622 [[electronic resource] ] : a new almanacke and prognostication for the yeere of our Lord God 1622, being the second from the bissextile or leape-yeare : calculated for the latitude and meridian of the most honourable citie of London, where the pole is exalted 51 degrees and 32 min. and may very well serue for most parts of Great Brittaine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1622]

Descrizione fisica

[40] p. : ill

Soggetti

Almanacs, English

Ephemerides

Astrology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Second part has special t.p. with title: Sofford 1622, a prognostication for the yeare of grace 1622.

Signatures: [A]-B⁸ C⁴.

Title within ornamental border.

Imperfect: slightly faded.

Reproduction of original in the Lambeth Palace Library.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0076

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996552352703316

Autore

Girdwood Megan

Titolo

Modernism and the choreographic imagination : Salome's dance after 1890 / / Megan Girdwood [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-4744-8165-5

1-3995-0195-X

1-4744-8164-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages)

Collana

Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance

Edinburgh scholarship online

Disciplina

809.933579

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature)

Dance in literature

Dance in motion pictures, television, etc

Christian art and symbolism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1 ‘UNLOCATABLE BODIES’: MODERNIST VEILED DANCERS FROM LOÏE FULLER TO MAUD ALLAN -- 2 ‘THAT INVISIBLE DANCE’: SYMBOLISM, SALOMÉ AND OSCAR WILDE’S CHOREOGRAPHIC AESTHETICS -- 3 ‘HARMONIES OF LIGHT’: CINÉ-DANCES AND WOMEN’S SILENT FILM -- 4 ‘HERODIAS’ DAUGHTERS HAVE RETURNED AGAIN’: W. B. YEATS AND THE IDEAL BODY -- EPILOGUE ‘DANCED THROUGH ITS SEVEN PHASES’: SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE LATE MODERNIST SALOME -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores Salome's quintessential veiled dance through readings of fictional and poetic texts, dramatic productions, dance performances and silent films, arguing for the central place of this dancer - and her many interpreters - to the wider formal and aesthetic



contours of modernism.