Beauty and belief: aesthetics and religion in Victorian literature
This study is an important contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England which examines the religio-aesthetic theories of some central writers of the time. Dr Fraser begins with a discussion of the aesthetic dimensions of Tractarian theology and then proceeds to the orthodox certaint...
| Subtitles: | Beauty & Belief |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1986
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| In: | Year: 1986 |
| Reviews: | BOOK REVIEWS (1988) (Rowell, Geoffrey, 1943 - 2017)
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| Further subjects: | B
Aesthetics in literature
B English literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism B Religion in literature B Aesthetics, British 19th century B Aesthetics, British ; 19th century B English literature 19th century History and criticism B Aestheticism (Literature) |
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| Summary: | This study is an important contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England which examines the religio-aesthetic theories of some central writers of the time. Dr Fraser begins with a discussion of the aesthetic dimensions of Tractarian theology and then proceeds to the orthodox certainties of Hopkins' theory of inscape, Ruskin's and Arnold's moralistic criticism of literature and the visual arts, and Pater's and Wilde's faith in a religion of art. The author identifies significant cultural and historical conditions which determined the interdependence of aesthetic and religious sensibility in the period. She argues that certain tensions in the thought of Wordsworth and Coleridge - tensions between poetry and religion, rebellion and reaction, individualism and authority - continued to manifest themselves throughout the Victorian age, and as society became increasingly democratic, religion in turn became increasingly personal and secular |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511896468 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511896460 |