| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 158 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Continuum new directions in religion and literature
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New directions in religion and literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-152) and index. |
| Contents |
Parable as literature, literature as parable -- The extraordinary in the ordinary: parable and realism -- The parable of actual life: Charlotte Yonge's The heir of Redclyffe -- Prodigal sons in the fiction of Margaret Oliphant -- The agent of a superior : stewardship parables in Our mutual friend. |
| Summary |
"The familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, and Lazarus and the Rich Man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and plots of biblical parables for a variety of authoritative, interpretive, and subversive effects. However, scholars of parables in literature have often overlooked the 19th-century novel, assuming that realism--the fiction of the probable and the commonplace--bears no relation to the subversive, iconoclastic genre of parable. But the Victorian literary engagement with the parable genre was not merely a matter of the useful or telling allusion. Susan E. Colṇ shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral complacency. Against the common assumption that the genres of realism and parable are polar opposites, this study explores how Victorian novels, despite their length, verisimilitude, and multi-plot complexity, can become parables in ways that imitate, interpret, and challenge their biblical sources"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Parables in literature.
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Parables in literature. |
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Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Christianity and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Christianity in literature.
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Christianity in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0826443486 (DLC) 2011028609 |
| ISBN |
1306844150 electronic book |
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9781306844154 electronic book |
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1441121374 electronic book |
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9781441121370 electronic book |
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9781441148261 electronic book |
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1441148264 electronic book |
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9781441146502 (paperback) |
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1441146504 (paperback) |
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9780826443489 (hardcover) |
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0826443486 (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
40020742204 |
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