Victorian Religious Discourse: New Directions in Criticism

ISBN-13: 9781349528820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 278 str.

Jude V. Nixon; J. Nixon

Opis

By looking at Victorian poetry, prose, and the novel, these essays show how a particular religious discourse cuts across the literary, gendered, and the broader semiotic landscape of Victorian literature.

Recenzje

"Jude V. Nixon's collection of essays, Victorian Religious Discourse, is an up-to-date survey of scholarly work on Christian faith and doubt in nineteenth-century England. These essays demonstrate the centrality of Protestant faith and practice to English nationhood and personal identity. Combining studies of prose, poetry, and fiction by established and younger scholars, the book is crucial reading for critics and historians interested in Victorian religious culture." - Sue Zemka, Emory University

Spis treści

Contributors Acknowledgments Framing Victorian Religious Discourse: An Introduction; J.V.Nixon PART 1: THE HIGHER-CRITICAL DEBATE The Victorian Radicals: Time and Multivalence in Hopkins, Pusey, and Müller; J.Bump "Kill[ing] Our Souls with Literalism": Reading Essays and Reviews; J.V.Nixon Skeptical Women V. Honest Men V. Good Old Boys: Gender Conflict in the High Victorian Religion Wars; J.L.Larson "Decomposing Texts": Browning's Poetics and Higher Critical Parody; S.Bailey "Our King Back, Oh, upon English Souls": Swinburne, Hopkins, and the Politics of Religion; R.V.Overholser PART 2: RELIGION AND THE AESTHETIC IMAGINATION Hearing Adventure: Giuseppe Caponsacchi, Browning's "Hollow Rock"; J.A.Dupras Faith, Romance and Imagination: Newman the Storyteller; B.Waterman Ward A "thousand solaces" for the Modern Spirit: Walter Pater's Religious Discourse; L.Higgins "Amen in a wrong place": Charles Dickens Imagines the Victorian Church; N.Bell Cole "Poetry is where God is": The Importance of Christian Faith and Theology in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Life and Work; A.M.B.Wörn References Index

O autorze

JUDE NIXON is Director at the Honors College, Oakland University, USA. He is author of numerous books and articles.