| Description |
315 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
1. Religion, evolution, and the novel: 1888 and a look backwards -- George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler: three types of search -- 2. George Eliot: the search for a religious tradition: George Eliot and science -- George Eliot and the "higher criticism" -- George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and tradition -- 3. Middlemarch: the balance of a progress: "Heart" and "mind": two forms of progress -- "Modes of religion" (a) -- Modes of religion" (b) -- "Metaphysics" of Middlemarch -- 4. Daniel Deronda: tradition as synthesis and salvation: Middlemarch and the two "worlds" of Daniel Deronda -- Hebraism as nationality -- Hebraism as religious belief -- 5. Walter Pater: the search for a religious atmosphere: Pater's "imaginary portraits" -- Pater's "religion of sanity" -- 6. "Atmospheres" of Marius the Epicurean: Pilgrimage of Marius (a) -- Pilgrimage of Marius (b) -- Christian death of a pagan -- 7. Samuel Butler: the search for a religious crossing: Creation of a faith (1859-1872) -- Consolidation of a faith (1873-1886) -- 8. Reality and Utopia in The way of all flesh: "Past selves" of Ernest Pontifex -- Conversion of Ernest Pontifex -- Creed of Ernest Pontifex. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Humanism, Religious.
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Humanism, Religious. |
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Literatura Inglesa (Historia E Critica) |
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Humanisme -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme. |
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Roman anglais -- 19e siècle. |
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