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Sudden changes, opportunities or revelations have always carried a special significance in western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments and events that compress great significance into small units of time. Sue Zemka questions the importance that modernity invests in momentary events, from religion to aesthetics and philosophy. She argues for a strain in Victorian and early modern novels critical of the values the age invested in moments of time, and suggests that such novels also offer a correction to contemporary culture and criticism, with its emphasis on the momentary event as an agency of change.
Sudden changes, opportunities or revelations have always carried a special significance in western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments and events that compress great significance into small units of time. Sue Zemka questions the importance that modernity invests in momentary events, from religion to aesthetics and philosophy. She argues for a strain in Victorian and early modern novels critical of the values the age invested in moments of time, and suggests that such novels also offer a correction to contemporary culture and criticism, with its emphasis on the momentary event as an agency of change.
"Victorian Testaments" examines the changing nature of biblical and
religious authority during the first half of the Victorian period.
The book argues that these changes had a profound impact on
concepts of cultural authority in general. Among the figures
discussed are Coleridge, Thomas Arnold, Ruskin, Dickens, Florence
Nightingale, and the missionaries of the British and Foreign Bible
Society. In developing its picture of Victorian religious ideology,
the book analyzes major works of the period, as well as works and
documents that have received little critical attention. Its methods
are interdisciplinary, building upon recent ideas in literary
theory, cultural criticism, and gender studies.
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