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Autore: | Perkin J. Russell (James Russell) |
Titolo: | Theology and the Victorian novel / / J. Russell Perkin |
Pubblicazione: | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina: | 823/.8093823 |
Soggetto topico: | Christianity and literature - England - History - 19th century |
Christianity in literature | |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism | |
Theology in literature | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-263) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : the Victorian book of life -- The implied theology of Vanity fair -- Charlotte Bronte·'s Shirley as a novel of religious controversy -- Gleams from a brighter world : Charlotte Mary Yonge's tractarian poetics -- From St. Paul to Pecksniff : Trollope's Bertrams and Arnold's god -- Feeling's a sort o'knowlege : George Eliot's religion of humanity -- Thomas Hardy's apocryphal gospels -- Literature and dogma : Mary August Ward's Robert Elsmere and Walter Pater's Marius the epicurean. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Beginning with a wide-ranging introduction that explains why a theological reading of Victorian fiction is both rewarding and timely, Perkin also addresses religion's return to prominence in the twenty-first century, confounding earlier predictions of its imminent demise. Chapters on William Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy are followed by a concluding discussion of Mary Ward and Walter Pater that relates Pater's Marius the Epicurean to postmodern theology and shows how it remains a religious classic for our own time. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Theology and the Victorian novel |
ISBN: | 1-282-86742-3 |
9786612867422 | |
0-7735-7699-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818099303321 |
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