Author : Victor J. Lams
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820463773
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (637 download)
Book Synopsis Newman's Visionary Georgic by : Victor J. Lams
Download or read book Newman's Visionary Georgic written by Victor J. Lams and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon the evidence that John Henry Newman's Parochial Sermons is a georgic (Lams, 2004), the current book defines and discusses the visionary georgic, a subset of the genre whose exemplars include Lucretius' De rerum natura and Wordsworth's The Prelude. Newman's visionary georgic defends Christian revelation against the rationalistic subjectivism that tended to displace religious faith by Wordsworthian self-exploration, leading to the Victorian redefinition of literature as secular scripture. Subjects discussed include Newman's relations with readers, his sermonic rhetoric, and his analysis of doctrines celebrated in the Church's liturgy.