Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Beauty and belief : aesthetics and religion in Victorian literature / Hilary Fraser

Author
Fraser, Hilary, 1953-
Additional Titles
Beauty & Belief
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Contents
Theology: Keble, Newman, and the Oxford Movement -- Epistemology and perception: Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Criticism: John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold -- Aestheticism: Walter pater and Oscar Wilde.
Summary
This study is an important contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England which examines the religio-aesthetic theories of some central writers of the time. Dr Fraser begins with a discussion of the aesthetic dimensions of Tractarian theology and then proceeds to the orthodox certainties of Hopkins' theory of inscape, Ruskin's and Arnold's moralistic criticism of literature and the visual arts, and Pater's and Wilde's faith in a religion of art. The author identifies significant cultural and historical conditions which determined the interdependence of aesthetic and religious sensibility in the period. She argues that certain tensions in the thought of Wordsworth and Coleridge - tensions between poetry and religion, rebellion and reaction, individualism and authority - continued to manifest themselves throughout the Victorian age, and as society became increasingly democratic, religion in turn became increasingly personal and secular.
Subject(s)
ISBN
9780511896460 (ebook)
9780521307673 (hardback)
9780521073110 (paperback)
Note
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
View MARC record | catkey: 34849303