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1 online resource (x, 233 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This study seeks to develop a new context for reading later Victorian fiction, specifically the work of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Mary Ward and Rider Haggard. With Eliot and her successors the Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality, just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining. The book considers whether serious, allegedly secular novelists supplanted the Bible or whether they anticipated some of the insights of contemporary theologians and writers of fiction by reimagining and reformulating rather than abandoning essentially religious themes and insights. |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1. God and the Bible, Secularisms and Novels""; ""2. The Authority of the Bible""; ""3. The Crisis of Biblical Authority""; ""4. George Eliot�s Secular Scriptures""; ""5. Thomas Hardy: The Church or Christianity""; ""6. Mary Ward and the Problems of History""; ""7. Rider Haggard: Adventures with the Numinous""; ""8. Conclusion: Authority, the Novel, and God""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T"" |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bible and literature.
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Bible and literature. |
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Christianity and literature.
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Christianity and literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vance, Norman, 1950- Bible and novel. 1st ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199680573 (OCoLC)828890977 |
| ISBN |
9780191501890 (electronic book) |
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0191501891 (electronic book) |
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9780199680573 |
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