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Author : James Anthony Froude
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Nemesis of Faith written by James Anthony Froude and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Albert Goetzman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1770 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Nemesis of Faith, by James Anthony Froude written by Robert Albert Goetzman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew H. Miller
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801461316
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Burdens of Perfection written by Andrew H. Miller and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its costs, as we have lost the concepts needed to recognize and assess much of what distinguished nineteenth-century British literature. That literature was inescapably ethical in orientation, and to proceed as if it were not ignores a large part of what these texts have to offer, and to that degree makes less reasonable the desire to study them, rather than other documents from the period, or from other periods. Such are the intuitions that drive The Burdens of Perfection, a study of moral perfectionism in nineteenth-century British culture. Reading the period's essayists (Mill, Arnold, Carlyle), poets (Browning and Tennyson), and especially its novelists (Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and James), Andrew H. Miller provides an extensive response to Stanley Cavell's contribution to ethics and philosophy of mind. In the process, Miller offers a fresh way to perceive the Victorians and the lingering traces their quests for improvement have left on readers.
Author : William R. McKelvy
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813925714
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)
Download or read book The English Cult of Literature written by William R. McKelvy and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes reading? This is the question William McKelvy asks in The English Cult of Literature. Is it a theory of interpretation or a physical activity, a process determined by hermeneutic destiny or by paper, ink, hands, and eyes? McKelvy seeks to transform the nineteenth-century field of "Religion and Literature" into "Reading and Religion," emphasizing both the material and the institutional contexts for each. In doing so, he hopes to recover the ways in which modern literary authority developed in dialogue with a politically reconfigured religious authority.The received wisdom has been that England's literary tradition was modernity's most promising religion because the established forms of Christianity, wounded in the Enlightenment, inevitably gave up their hold on the imagination and on the political sphere. Through a series of case studies and analysis of a diverse range of writing, this work gives life to a very different story, one that shows literature assuming a religious vocation in concert with an increasingly unencumbered freedom of religious confession and the making of a reading nation. In the process the author shifts attention away from the idea of the literary critic in favor of considering the historic role of religious professionals in shaping and contesting the authority of print.Indebted to recent findings of book history and newer historiographies at odds with conventional secularization theory, this work makes an interdisciplinary contribution to revising the existing models for understanding change in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author : D. Jasper
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349201227
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The Critical Spirit and the Will to Believe written by D. Jasper and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-08-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1786 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry George Ganss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mariolatry written by Henry George Ganss and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daragh Downes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137518235
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon written by Daragh Downes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like John Sutherland and Franco Moretti, this energetically revisionist volume takes advantage of recent large-scale digitisation projects that allow unprecedented access to hitherto neglected literary texts and archives. Blending lively critical engagement with individual texts and close attention to often surprising trends in the production and reception of prose fiction across the Victorian era, this book will be of use to anyone interested in re-evaluating the received meta-narratives of Victorian literary history. With an afterword by John Sutherland
Author : Rebecca Lemon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118241150
Total Pages : 959 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature written by Rebecca Lemon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period through to the twentieth-century Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical context Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature Includes many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it
Author : Lawrence Francis McNamee
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Dissertations in English and American Literature written by Lawrence Francis McNamee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ilana M. Blumberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192659707
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book George Eliot written by Ilana M. Blumberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The girl who would become George Eliot began her professional writing life with a poem bidding farewell to all books but the Bible. How did a young Christian poet become the great realist novelist whose commitment to religious freethinking made her so iconoclastic that she could not be buried in in Westminster Abbey? Memorialized there today by a stone lain in the Poets' Corner in 1980, George Eliot wrote herself and her fellow Victorians through turbulent decades of moral and historical doubt in religious orthodoxy, alongside the unrelenting need to articulate a compelling modern faith in its place. Unafraid to confront the most difficult existential questions of her time, George Eliot wrote immensely popular novels that wrestled with problems whose hold has barely lessened in the last 150 years: the pervasiveness of human suffering and the injustice of its measures; the tension between fulfilling our ethical obligations to others and pursuing our own well-being; the impetus to act virtuously in this world without any guarantee of reward, and the need to make some "religion" in life, something beyond our own immediate, fluctuating desires. In this new account of George Eliot's spiritual life, George Eliot: Whole Soul, Ilana Blumberg reveals to us a writer who did not simply lose her faith once and for all on her way to becoming an adult, but devoted the full span of her career to imagining a wide religious sensibility that could inform personal and social life. As we range among Eliot's letters, essays, translations, poetry, and novels, we encounter here a writer whose extraordinary art and intellect offer us company, still today, in the search for modern meaning.
Author : Kathryn Hughes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815411219
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (154 download)
Download or read book George Eliot written by Kathryn Hughes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intensely engaging biography examines the extraordinary life of George Eliot from her childhood, through her scandalous liaison and social exile, to her hard-won status as one of Victorian England's literary elite.
Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Sotheran's Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Middeke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110376717
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900 written by Martin Middeke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I of this authoritative handbook offers systematic essays, which deal with major historical, social, philosophical, political, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the English novel between 1830 and 1900. The essays offer a wide scope of aspects such as the Industrial Revolution, religion and secularisation, science, technology, medicine, evolution or the increasing mediatisation of the lifeworld. Part II, then, leads through the work of more than 25 eminent Victorian novelists. Each of these chapters provides both historical and biographical contextualisation, overview, close reading and analysis. They also encourage further research as they look upon the work of the respective authors at issue from the perspectives of cultural and literary theory.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Rée
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300247362
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Witcraft written by Jonathan Rée and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that "philosophy should be written like poetry." But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience, and good humor? Here, Jonathan Rée brilliantly retells this history, covering such figures as Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, James, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Sartre. But he also includes authors not usually associated with philosophy, such as William Hazlitt, George Eliot, Darwin, and W. H. Auden. Above all, he uncovers dozens of unremembered figures--puritans, revolutionaries, pantheists, feminists, nihilists, socialists, and scientists--who were passionate and active readers of philosophy, and often authors themselves. Breaking away from high-altitude narratives, he shows how philosophy finds its way into ordinary lives, enriching and transforming them in unexpected ways.
Author : Ciaran Brady
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198726538
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book James Anthony Froude written by Ciaran Brady and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Anthony Froude remains one of the most commonly referenced and frequently cited of Victorian public intellectuals. Known to intellectual historians as the author of a monumental History of England in the sixteenth century and as a key exponent of Victorian religious doubt, he is also frequently referenced as the author of a series of scandalously provocative novels and of a hugely controversial biography of Thomas Carlyle. Historians of the British Empire and of Ireland have frequently been compelled to address his sometimes outrageous (but often representative) historical writings. Scholars of mid-Victorian politics have no less often turned to Froude as a typical representative of Victorian fears of democracy, while more recently students of political thought have identified him as an early representative of a new form of Commonwealth civic republicanism. Yet for all that Froude remains a strangely marginalised, fragmented, and neglected figure. Ciaran Brady now addresses this remarkable gap. Based on a thorough critical examination of all of Froude's published works - many of which have been discovered and identified here for the first time - and supplemented by intensive research into Froude's private and widely scattered manuscript materials, he offers the first sustained study of Froude's life and thought. Against the common assumption that Froude's life can be divided along simple lines - the sometime enfant terrible who aged into a respectable man of letters - he argues that there was a deeper coherence underlying everything he wrote from the scandalous productions of the 1840s to the authoritative university lectures of the 1890s. In addition to providing a study of a major but neglected nineteenth century intellectual, Brady offers a critical analysis of the impulses, the aspirations, and the unquestioned assumptions underlying the Romantic project of personal renovation, and an alternative view of that unique phenomenon known as 'the Victorian sage'.
