LEADER 04141nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910781539903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6485-4 010 $a0-8014-6479-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801464799 035 $a(CKB)2550000000074478 035 $a(OCoLC)769190455 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10515999 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000552240 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11404115 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000552240 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10538481 035 $a(PQKB)10682946 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28700 035 $a(DE-B1597)480092 035 $a(OCoLC)1013948713 035 $a(OCoLC)979778466 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801464799 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138275 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10515999 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL769602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138275 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000074478 100 $a20050826d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVictorian interpretation$b[electronic resource] /$fSuzy Anger 210 $aIthaca, NY $cCornell University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7744-1 311 $a0-8014-4201-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 173-197) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAn Overview -- $t1. Victorian Scriptural Hermeneutics: History, Intention, and Evolution -- $t2. Carlyle: Between Biblical Exegesis and Romantic Hermeneutics -- $t3. George Eliot's Hermeneutics of Sympathy -- $t4. Subjectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Intention: Oscar Wilde and Literary Hermeneutics -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aSuzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism is practiced today. Her primary focus is literary interpretation, but she also considers fields such as legal theory, psychology, history, and the natural sciences in order to establish the pervasiveness of hermeneutic thought in Victorian culture. Anger's book demonstrates that much current thought on interpretation has its antecedents in the Victorians, who were already deeply engaged with the problems of interpretation that concern literary theorists today.Anger traces the development and transformation of interpretive theory from a religious to a secular (and particularly literary) context. She argues that even as hermeneutic theory was secularized in literary interpretation it carried in its practice some of the religious implications with which the tradition began. She further maintains that, for the Victorians, theories of interpretation are often connected to ethical principles and suggests that all theories of interpretation may ultimately be grounded in ethical theories.Beginning with an examination of Victorian biblical exegesis, in the work of figures such as Benjamin Jowett, John Henry Newman, and Matthew Arnold, the book moves to studies of Thomas Carlyle, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde. Emphasizing the extent to which these important writers are preoccupied with hermeneutics, Anger also shows that consideration of their thought brings to light questions and qualifications of some of the assumptions of contemporary criticism. 606 $aInterpretation (Philosophy)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aHermeneutics$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPhilosophy, English$y19th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y19th century 615 0$aInterpretation (Philosophy)$xHistory 615 0$aHermeneutics$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPhilosophy, English 676 $a121/.686/094209034 700 $aAnger$b Suzy$01478258 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781539903321 996 $aVictorian interpretation$93693907 997 $aUNINA