Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel

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Aesthetic Theory
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Art for art's sake
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Calvinism
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Charles Darwin
Christian culture
Christian ethics
Christian socialism
Christianity
Coningsby (novel)
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Critical Essays (Orwell)
Cupid and Psyche
D. H. Lawrence
Daniel Deronda
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Erewhon Revisited
Faith in Christianity
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G. M. Trevelyan
George Eliot
George Henry Lewes
Gwendolen
Historical fiction
Historical Jesus
Iconoclasm
Jane Austen
John Henry Newman
Judeo-Christian
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Marius the Epicurean
Narcissism
Neoplatonism
Novel
Novel of manners
Novelist
Orthodox Judaism
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Precaution (novel)
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Religion of Humanity
Religious humanism
Renunciation
Roman Religion
Romanticism
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Scientism
Sexual Desire (book)
Shakespeare's sonnets
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Spirituality
Suspension of disbelief
The Edwardians
The English Gentleman
The Essence of Christianity
The Philosopher
The Way of All Flesh
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Victorian era
Walter Pater
William Shakespeare
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780691647845
  • Weight: 624g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Apr 2016
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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Contents: I. Religion, evolution, and the novel; 1. 1888 and a look backwards; 2. George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler: three types of search; II. George Eliot: the search for a religious tradition; 1. George Eliot and science; 2. George Eliot and the "higher criticism"; 3. George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and tradition; III. Middlemarch: the balance of a progress; 1. "Heart" and "mind": two forms of progress; 2. "Modes of religion" (a); 3. Modes of religion" (b); 4. The "metaphysics" of Middlemarch; IV. Daniel Deronda: tradition as synthesis and salvation; 1. Middlemarch and the two "worlds" of Daniel Deronda; 2. Hebraism as nationality; 3. Hebraism as religious belief; V. Walter Pater: the search for a religious atmosphere; 1. Pater's "imaginary portraits"; 2. Pater's "religion of sanity"; VI. The "atmospheres" of Marius the Epicurean; 1. The pilgrimage of Marius (a); 2. The pilgrimage of Marius (b); 3. The Christian death of a pagan; VII. Samuel Butler: the search for a religious crossing; 1. The creation of a faith (1859-1872); 2. The consolidation of a faith (1873-1886); VIII. Reality and Utopia in The way of all flesh; 1. The "past selves" of Ernest Pontifex; 2. The conversion of Ernest Pontifex; 3. The creed of Ernest Pontifex; Appendixes; Index Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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