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Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature - An Introduction (Paperback)
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Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature - An Introduction (Paperback)
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Recent scholarship in nineteenth-century literary studies
consistently recognizes the profound importance of religion, even
as it marginalizes the topic. There are few, if any, challenging
yet manageable introductions to religion and literature in the
long-nineteenth century, a factor that serves to fuel scholars'
neglect of theological issues. This book aims to show how religion,
specifically Christianity, is integral to the literature and
culture of this period. It provides close readings of popular texts
and integrates these with accessible explanations of complex
religious ideas. Written by two scholars who have published widely
on religion and literature, the book offers a detailed grounding in
the main religious movements of the period 1750-1914. The dominant
traditions of High Anglicanism, Tractarianism, Evangelicalism, and
Roman Catholicism are contextualized by preceding chapters
addressing dissenting culture (primarily Presbyterianism,
Methodism, Unitarianism and Quakerism), and the question of
secularization is considered in the light of the diversity and
capacity for renewal within the Christian faith. Throughout the
book the authors untangle theological and church debates in a
manner that highlights the privileged relationship between religion
and literature in the period. The book also gives readers a
language to approach and articulate their own "religious" readings
of texts, texts that are often concerned with slippery subjects,
such as the divine, the non-material and the nature of religious
experience. Refusing to shut down religious debate by offering only
narrow or fixed definitions of Christian traditions, the book also
questions the demarcation of sacred materialfrom secular, as well
as connecting the vitality of religion in the period to a broader
literary culture.
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