Knoepflmacher Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel

George Eliot, Walter Pater and Samuel Butler
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7245-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Knoepflmacher, U. C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. vii
Contents, pg. ix
I. Religion, Evolution, and the Novel, pg. 1
II. George Eliot: The Search for a Religious Tradition, pg. 24
III. Middlemarch: The Balance of Progress, pg. 72
IV. Daniel Deronda: Tradition as Synthesis and Salvation, pg. 116
V. Walter Pater: The Search for a Religious Atmosphere, pg. 149
VI. The "Atmospheres" of Martus the Epicurean, pg. 189
VII. Samuel Butler: The Search for a Religious Crossing, pg. 224
VIII. Reality and Utopia in The Way of All Flesh, pg. 257
Appendix I, pg. 297
Index, pg. 301