Victorian Religious Discourse
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Victorian Religious Discourse
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Author : J. Nixon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-08-20
Victorian Religious Discourse written by J. Nixon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays attempts to address the disparate historical and critical ways religion informs the literature and culture of nineteenth century England, showing how a representative group of major Victorians negotiated its impact. The collection attempts to present Victorian religious discourse not as monologic but as dialogic, if not protean. It seeks to make available new understandings of nineteenth-century British literature as well as to elucidate the extent to which religious discourse is vested in Victorian cultural thoughts and practice.
Victorian Discourses On Sexuality And Religion
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Author : John Maynard
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-02
Victorian Discourses On Sexuality And Religion written by John Maynard and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
John Maynard's original and provocative study looks at sexuality and religion as creations of language, in the literary and cultural discourses of Victorian England. After a wide-ranging introduction (drawing on myth, anthropology, comparative religion and the history of sexuality) Maynard goes on to articulate and interpret the strikingly complex and varied ways in which the earnest sceptic Arthur Hugh Clough, the Protestant Charles Kingsley, and the Catholic convert Coventry Patmore placed the relation of sexuality and religion at the centre of their work. A final chapter on Jude the Obscure demonstrates Thomas Hardy's deconstruction of the endeavour to make sense of sexuality and religion, fragmenting this inherited discourse into mere words and bodily parts, in a disintegration of the great constructive vision of his predecessors.
Forbidden Utterances
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Author : J. E. Gjevre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Forbidden Utterances written by J. E. Gjevre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Memory in literature categories.
Victorian Doubt
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Author : Lance St. John Butler
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1990
Victorian Doubt written by Lance St. John Butler and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
Same Sex Desire In Victorian Religious Culture
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Author : F. Roden
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2002-10-23
Same Sex Desire In Victorian Religious Culture written by F. Roden and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture examines the role of Christian history in nineteenth-century definitions of homosexual identity. Roden charts the emergence of the modern homosexual in relation to religious, not exclusively sociological discourses. Positing Catholicism as complementary to classical Greece, he challenges the separatism of sexuality and religion in critical practice. Moving from Newman and Rossetti, to Hopkins, Wilde, and Michael Field amongst others, Same-Sex Desire claims a new literary history, bringing together gay studies and theology in Victorian literature.
Victorian Poets And The Politics Of Culture
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Author : Antony H. Harrison
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1998
Victorian Poets And The Politics Of Culture written by Antony H. Harrison and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
With the publication of his ambitious new work Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture, Antony H. Harrison continues his exploration of poetry as a significant force in the construction of English culture from 1837-1900. In chapters focusing on Victorian medievalist discourse, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, and Christina Rossetti, Harrison examines a range of Victorian poems in order to show the cultural work they accomplish. He illuminates, for example, such culturally prominent Victorian mythologies as the exaltation of motherhood, the Romanic appropriation of transcendent art, and the idealization of the gypsy as a culturally alien, exotic Other. His investigation of the ways in which the authors intervene in the discourses that articulate such mythologies and thereby accrue cultural power--along with his analysis of what constitutes "cultural power"--are original contributions to the field of Victorian studies. "The power of Victorian poetry by midcentury was enhanced by the institutionalization of particular channels through which it circulated," Harrison writes. "poetry was 'consumed' in more varied forms than was other literature." Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture has implications for both cultural studies and the study of literature outside the Victorian period.
Religion And Irreligion In Victorian Society
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Author : Robert Kiefer Webb
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1992
Religion And Irreligion In Victorian Society written by Robert Kiefer Webb and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Perplext In Faith
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Author : Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02
Perplext In Faith written by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02 with English essays categories.
In the last twenty years, there has been a growing recognition of the centrality of religious beliefs to an understanding of Victorian literature and society. This interdisciplinary collection makes a significant contribution to post-secularist scholarship on Victorian culture, reflecting the great diversity of religious beliefs and doubts in Victorian Britain, with essays on Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Unitarian, and spiritualist topics. Writing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives for an interdisciplinary audience, the essayists investigate religious belief using diverse historical and literary sources, including journalism, hymns, paintings, travel-writings, scientific papers, novels, and poetry. Essays in the volume examine topics including: â [ The relation between science and religion in the career of evolutionary biologist Alfred Russel Wallace (Thomas Prasch); â [ The continuing significance of the Bible in geopolitical discourse (Eric Reisenauer); â [ The role of children and childrenâ (TM)s hymns in the missionary and temperance movements (Alisa Clapp-Itnyre); â [ The role of women in Christian and Jewish traditions (Julie Melnyk and Lindsay Dearinger); â [ The revival of Catholicism and Catholic culture and practices (Katherine Haldane Grenier and Michelle Meinhart); â [ The occult religious society Golden Dawn (Sharon Cogdill); â [ Faith in the writings of the Brontë sisters (Christine ColÃ3n), Charles Dickens (Jessica Hughes) and George Eliot (Robert Koepp).
Reinventing Christianity
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Author : Linda Woodhead
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-16
Reinventing Christianity written by Linda Woodhead and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with Religion categories.
This title was first published in 2001. 'An age of faith or an age of doubt?'- the question has dominated study of Christianity in the Victorian era. Reinventing Christianity offers a fresh analysis of the vitality and variety of Christianity in Britain and America in the Victorian era. Part One presents an overview of some of the main varieties of Christianity in the west ranging from the conservative - Protestant evangelicalism and 'fortress' Catholicism - to the radical - Theosophy, Swedenborgianism and Transcendentalism; Part Two reviews negotiations between Christianity and the wider culture. The conclusion reflects on general trends in the period, showing how many of these prefigured later developments in religion. This book highlights the creativity and diversity of 19th century Christianity, showing how developments normally associated with the late 20th century - such as the reassertion of tradition and the rise of feminist theology and alternative spirituality - were already in train a century before.
Victorian Testaments
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Author : Sue Zemka
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1997
Victorian Testaments written by Sue Zemka and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.
Victorian Testaments examines the changing nature of biblical and religious authority during the first half of the Victorian period. The book argues that these changes had a profound impact on concepts of cultural authority in general. Among the figures discussed are Coleridge, Thomas Arnold, Ruskin, Dickens, Florence Nightingale, and the missionaries of the British and Foreign Bible Society. In developing its picture of Victorian religious ideology, the book analyzes major works of the period, as well as works and documents that have received little critical attention. Its methods are interdisciplinary, building upon recent ideas in literary theory, cultural criticism, and gender studies. The book proposes that changes in religious faith and Bible reading tended in two directions, the one a celebration of spiritual individualism, the other of the nuclear family. As the credibility of a supernatural source for the scriptures diminished, the need for certainty in moral and religious matters was increasingly filled by the importance attached to individual character. Those Victorians who nurtured their individual character on Bible reading were understood to reveal the perfect spirit of the scripturesjust as the scriptures themselves, it seemed, could no longer do so. However, the desire for religious heroes was counterpoised by another and highly sentimentalized model of the spiritual life, one where religious authority was decentered across a social spectrum of fathers, mothers, and children. In this second direction explored by the book, a complex economy of spiritual power and authority is created by the distribution of sexual, intellectual, and affective attributes to figures who together constitute the nuclear familyone might say the secular holy family. By tracing these two narrative patternsthe intellectual drama of the spiritual hero and the sentimental saga of the nuclear familythe author demonstrates that the spirituality of many nineteenth-century texts was not an allegory of transcendence so much as a by-product of the narratives themselves. A large-scale cultural confrontation with the disappearance of God was, to a certain extent, deferred by narratives that picked up the slack in faith, creating performances of sacred power with characters who demonstrated either an awesome religious interiority or a recognizably sentimental display of idealized femininity or childhood innocence.