Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible write by Charles LaPorte. This book was released on 2011-11-17. Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible charts the impact of post-Enlightenment biblical criticism on English literary culture. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a widespread reevaluation of biblical inspiration, in which the Bible’s poetic nature came to be seen as an integral part of its religious significance. Understandably, then, many poets who followed this interpretative revolution—including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning—came to reconceive their highest vocational ambitions: if the Bible is essentially poetry, then modern poetry might perform a cultural role akin to that of scripture. This context equally illuminates the aims and achievements of famous Victorian unbelievers such as Arthur Hugh Clough and George Eliot, who also responded enthusiastically to the poetic ideal of an inspired text. Building upon a recent and ongoing reevaluation of religion as a vital aspect of Victorian culture, Charles LaPorte shows the enduring relevance of religion in a period usually associated with its decline. In doing so, he helps to delineate the midcentury shape of a literary dynamic that is generally better understood in Romantic poetry of the earlier part of the century. The poets he examines all wrestled with modern findings about the Bible's fortuitous historical composition, yet they owed much of their extraordinary literary success to their ability to capitalize upon the progress of avant-garde biblical interpretation. This book's revisionary and provocative thesis speaks not only to the course of English poetics but also to the logic of nineteenth-century literary hierarchies and to the continuing evolution of religion in the modern era. Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible
Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible write by Charles LaPorte. This book was released on 2011. Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible charts the impact of post-Enlightenment biblical criticism on English literary culture. --from publisher description.
Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion
Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion write by Kirstie Blair. This book was released on 2012-05-24. Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. It discusses major Victorian poets - Tennyson, the Brownings, Rossetti, Hopkins, Hardy - and also argues that their work was influenced by a host of minor and less studied writers.
A People of One Book
A People of One Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A People of One Book write by Timothy Larsen. This book was released on 2011-01-27. A People of One Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. They habitually read the Bible, quoted it, adopted its phraseology as their own, thought in its categories, and viewed their own lives and experiences through a scriptural lens. This astonishingly deep, relentless, and resonant engagement with the Bible was true across the religious spectrum from Catholics to Unitarians and beyond. The scripture-saturated culture of nineteenth-century England is displayed by Timothy Larsen in a series of lively case studies of representative figures ranging from the Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry to the liberal Anglican pioneer of nursing Florence Nightingale to the Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon to the Jewish author Grace Aguilar. Even the agnostic man of science T. H. Huxley and the atheist leaders Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant were thoroughly and profoundly preoccupied with the Bible. Serving as a tour of the diversity and variety of nineteenth-century views, Larsen's study presents the distinctive beliefs and practices of all the major Victorian religious and sceptical traditions from Anglo-Catholics to the Salvation Army to Spiritualism, while simultaneously drawing out their common, shared culture as a people of one book.
Victorian Poetry as Sacred Scripture
Victorian Poetry as Sacred Scripture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victorian Poetry as Sacred Scripture write by Charles Pierre LaPorte. This book was released on 2004. Victorian Poetry as Sacred Scripture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
