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At a time when biblical authority was under challenge from the
Higher Criticism and evolutionary science, ‘what providence
meant’ was the most keenly contested of questions. This book
takes up the controversial subject of Dickens and religion, and
offers a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary area of
religion and literature. In a close study of major novels, it
argues that networks of biblical allusion reveal the
Judeo-Christian grand narrative as key to his development as a
writer, and as the ontological ground on which he stands to appeal
to ‘the conscience of a Christian people’. Engaging the
biblical narrative in dialogue with other contemporary narratives
that concern themselves with origins, destinations, and hermeneutic
decipherments, the inimitable Dickens affirms the Bible’s
still-active role in popular culture. The providential thinking of
two twentieth-century theorists, Bakhtin and Ricoeur, sheds light
on an exploration of Dickens’s narrative theology.
At a time when biblical authority was under challenge from the
Higher Criticism and evolutionary science, 'what providence meant'
was the most keenly contested of questions. This book takes up the
controversial subject of Dickens and religion, and offers a
significant contribution to the interdisciplinary area of religion
and literature. In a close study of major novels, it argues that
networks of biblical allusion reveal the Judeo-Christian grand
narrative as key to his development as a writer, and as the
ontological ground on which he stands to appeal to 'the conscience
of a Christian people'. Engaging the biblical narrative in dialogue
with other contemporary narratives that concern themselves with
origins, destinations, and hermeneutic decipherments, the
inimitable Dickens affirms the Bible's still-active role in popular
culture. The providential thinking of two twentieth-century
theorists, Bakhtin and Ricoeur, sheds light on an exploration of
Dickens's narrative theology.
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Scenes of Clerical Life (Paperback, Reissue)
George Eliot; Edited by Jennifer Gribble; Introduction by Jennifer Gribble; Notes by Jennifer Gribble
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'Many men write well and tell a story well, but few possess the art of giving individuality to their characters so happily and easily as you …' Wrote the publisher John Blackwood in February 1857 to a shy and ambitious new author, whom he had not yet met, George Eliot. Shielded by this pseudonymn, Mary Ann Evans made her fictional début when Scenes of Clerical Life appeared in Blackwood's Magazine the same year. These are Eliot's earliest studies of what became enduring themes: the impact of religious controversy and social change in provincial life, and the power of love to transform the lives of individual men and women. In 'The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton', Amos learns only after her death the value of Milly's selfless love; 'Mr Gilfil's Love Story' tells of a clergyman's life-long devotion to the memory of Caterina, destroyed by her passion for another lover; in 'Janet's Repentance', the life of the alchoholic Janet Dempster is decisvely changed by the attractiveness of Rev. Tryan, an evangelical preacher. Adam Bede was soon to appear and bring George Eliot great fame and fortune. In the meantime the Scenes won acclaim from a discerning readership including Charles Dickens: 'I hope you will excuse my writing to you to express my admiration … The exquisite truth and delicacy, both of the humour and the pathos of those stories, I have never seen the like of.'
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