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The Marriage of Faith - Christianity in Jane Austen and William Wordsworth (Hardcover, New)
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The Marriage of Faith - Christianity in Jane Austen and William Wordsworth (Hardcover, New)
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Near its heart, English Romanticism-across many
writers-acknowledges and celebrates a community that is not just
secular but that derives meaning from a religious association and,
in fact, a particularly defined religion, that is, Anglican
Christianity. William Wordsworth and Jane Austen, premier English
Romantic poet and novelist, were baptized, confirmed, and buried
(and for Wordsworth, married) in conformity with the Church of
England. Of course, Wordsworth's commitment flagged in his
twenties, but with marriage and responsibility came respectability
and parishioner status. However, most twentieth-century critics
interpret these writers' works outside the Christian realities with
which their lives were much imbued, except for late Wordsworthian
poems from his purported decline into conservative politics and
religion and evident poetic senility. Jane Austen did not live long
enough to have a late decline, but critics have nonetheless
overlooked her faith. It is not necessarily the surface of her
writing, but Christianity is unquestionably the sea out of which
her characters arise, her plots bubble up, and her themes unfold.
It was her and their reality. Notwithstanding this negative or
blind critical precedent, Laura Dabundo highlights what most
readers are conditioned to disregard, the ways in which the church
saturates the writing of Wordsworth and Austen. The Church of
England's liturgy has traditionally been based on Scripture, which
these writers would have known. This book, then, links their faith
to their works.
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