LEADER 04578oam 22006374c 450 001 9910464107703321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4742-1158-5 010 $a1-4411-2137-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474211581 035 $a(CKB)3230000000213839 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25702550 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1748423 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1748423 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10866875 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL615666 035 $a(OCoLC)893331169 035 $a(OCoLC)1138648144 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09257460 035 $a(EXLCZ)993230000000213839 100 $a20110727d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aVictorian parables $fSusan E. Colo?n 210 1$aLondon $aNew York $cContinuum International Pub. Group $d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 158 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum new directions in religion and literature 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-8264-4348-6 311 $a1-4411-4650-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [139]-152) and index 327 $aPreface \ 1. Parable as Literature, Literature as Parable \ 2. The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Parable and Realism \ 3. "The Parable of Actual Life": Charlotte Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe \ 4. Prodigal Sons in the Fiction of Margaret Oliphant \ 5. "The Agent of a Superior": Stewardship Parables in Our Mutual Friend \ Afterword \ Notes\ Bibliography \ Index 330 $a"The familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, and Lazarus and the Rich Man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and plots of biblical parables for a variety of authoritative, interpretive, and subversive effects. However, scholars of parables in literature have often overlooked the 19th-century novel, assuming that realism--the fiction of the probable and the commonplace--bears no relation to the subversive, iconoclastic genre of parable. But the Victorian literary engagement with the parable genre was not merely a matter of the useful or telling allusion. Susan E. Colo?n shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral complacency. Against the common assumption that the genres of realism and parable are polar opposites, this study explores how Victorian novels, despite their length, verisimilitude, and multi-plot complexity, can become parables in ways that imitate, interpret, and challenge their biblical sources."--$cProvided by publisher 330 8 $aThe familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the prodigal son, and Lazarus and the rich man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and plots of biblical parables for a variety of authoritative, interpretive, and subversive effects. However, scholars of parables in literature have often overlooked the 19th-century novel, assuming that realism bears no relation to the subversive, iconoclastic genre of parable. In this book Susan E. Colo?n shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral ideas. Against the common assumption that the genres of realism and parable are polar opposites, this study explores how Victorian novels, despite their length, verisimilitude, and multi-plot complexity, can become parables in ways that imitate, interpret, and challenge their biblical sources. 410 0$aNew directions in religion and literature. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $2Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 606 $aParables in literature 606 $aChristianity and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aChristianity in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aParables in literature. 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory 615 0$aChristianity in literature. 676 $a823/.809 700 $aColo?n$b Susan E.$0942630 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464107703321 996 $aVictorian parables$92127206 997 $aUNINA