Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature : An Introduction.
Title:
Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature : An Introduction.
Author:
Knight, Mark.
ISBN:
9780191535017
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (254 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Dissent: Wesley to Blake -- Old Dissent -- Evangelical Dissent -- Methodism -- Dissenting Academies -- Blake -- 2. Unitarianism: Priestley to Gaskell -- 'Anti-Trinitarianism' -- A Society of Friends -- A Common Good -- 'New' Unitarianism -- 'Early Feminists' -- 3. The Oxford Movement: Wordsworth to Hopkins -- Beginnings -- Beliefs and Ideas -- Poetry -- Ritualism -- 4. Evangelicalism: Brontë to Eliot -- Identity -- Cultural (Dis)Engagement -- People of the Word -- Preaching, Revivalism, and Conversion -- Temptation, Fallen Women, and Judgement -- 5. Secularization: Dickens to Hardy -- Materialism -- Immanent Theology and the Rise of the Social Gospel -- Urban Prophets -- Religion, Modernity, and the Public Sphere -- Freethinking, Blasphemy, and the Rewriting of Religion -- 6. Catholicism and Mysticism: Huysmans to Chesterton -- Taking Catholicism Seriously -- The Book of Nature and the Sacramental Universe -- Mysticism versus Religion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
An ambitious book...an important work which will no doubt stimulate much reflection and debate...a sturdily bound, well-indexed text. - William Baker, Modern Language Review;Knight and Mason capture the flavour of each individual text beautifully, serving to tantalise and encourage further reading rather than to frustrate, and their analysis is scholarly and suggestive. Although it is extremely selective, this is an excellent introduction to a broad and complex subject, and will provide interested readers with a solid starting point. - Kate Harper, University of York;This text provides an accessible introduction to the complex inter-relationships between literature and religion in the long nineteenth century without being reductive. [A] rich, accessible and carefully nuanced exploration of different Christian traditions within nineteenth-century Britain - Alison Searle, The Glass, Spring 2008.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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