Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An IntroductionOUP Oxford, 16 nov. 2006 - 245 pages Recent scholarship in nineteenth-century literary studies consistently recognizes the profound importance of religion, even as it marginalizes the topic. There are few, if any, challenging yet manageable introductions to religion and literature in the long-nineteenth century, a factor that serves to fuel scholars' neglect of theological issues. This book aims to show how religion, specifically Christianity, is integral to the literature and culture of this period. It provides close readings of popular texts and integrates these with accessible explanations of complex religious ideas. Written by two scholars who have published widely on religion and literature, the book offers a detailed grounding in the main religious movements of the period 1750-1914. The dominant traditions of High Anglicanism, Tractarianism, Evangelicalism, and Roman Catholicism are contextualized by preceding chapters addressing dissenting culture (primarily Presbyterianism, Methodism, Unitarianism and Quakerism), and the question of secularization is considered in the light of the diversity and capacity for renewal within the Christian faith. Throughout the book the authors untangle theological and church debates in a manner that highlights the privileged relationship between religion and literature in the period. The book also gives readers a language to approach and articulate their own "religious" readings of texts, texts that are often concerned with slippery subjects, such as the divine, the non-material and the nature of religious experience. Refusing to shut down religious debate by offering only narrow or fixed definitions of Christian traditions, the book also questions the demarcation of sacred material from secular, as well as connecting the vitality of religion in the period to a broader literary culture. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Wesley to Blake | 17 |
Priestley to Gaskell | 52 |
Wordsworth to Hopkins | 87 |
Brontë to Eliot | 120 |
Dickens to Hardy | 152 |
Huysmans to Chesterton | 189 |
Bibliography | 217 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Alice Meynell Anglican argued Barbauld belief Bible biblical Blake Bleak House Britain Cambridge University Press Catholic Catholicism chapter Chesterton Christ Christian Christina Rossetti Church of England claim Coleridge confession critics cultural Dickens Dissent divine doctrine Eliot emotion enthusiasm essay eucharist Evangelical example Exeter Hall experience faith feeling G. K. Chesterton George Eliot God’s Gospel Hemans human Hymns Ibid ideas insisted interpretation John Keble language literary literature London Mad Jack Mary Wollstonecraft Maurice Methodist Meynell Meynell’s modern moral mystery mysticism narrative narrator nature Newman nineteenth century nonconformist novel Oxford Movement pantheism passion poem poet poetic poetry political preaching Presbyterians Priestley prophetic Protestant Pusey radical rational reader religion religious revealed Revival ritual Romanticism Rossetti sacramental Salvation Scripture secular sermons social Society Socinian spiritual suggests supernatural theology Theosophy thought Tractarian tradition Unitarianism Victorian W. B. Yeats Wesley Wesley’s William Wollstonecraft women words Wordsworth writing Yeats