Victorian Doubt

Author : Christopher Lane
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300168810
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Doubt written by Christopher Lane and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian era was the first great ";Age of Doubt"; and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the Bible had taught them about the world. In "The Age of Doubt," distinguished scholar Christopher Lane tells the fascinating story of a society under strain as virtually all aspects of life changed abruptly. In deft portraits of scientific, literary, and intellectual icons who challenged the prevailing religious orthodoxy, from Robert Chambers and Anne Bronte; to Charles Darwin and Thomas H. Huxley, Lane demonstrates how they and other Victorians succeeded in turning doubt from a religious sin into an ethical necessity. The dramatic adjustment of Victorian society has echoes today as technology, science, and religion grapple with moral issues that seemed unimaginable even a decade ago. Yet the Victorians'; crisis of faith generated a far more searching engagement with religious belief than the ";new atheism"; that has evolved today. More profoundly than any generation before them, the Victorians came to view doubt as inseparable from belief, thought, and debate, as well as a much-needed antidote to fanaticism and unbridled certainty. By contrast, a look at today';s extremes-;from the biblical literalists behind the Creation Museum to the dogmatic rigidity of Richard Dawkins';s atheism-;highlights our modern-day inability to embrace doubt."

Author : Richard J. Helmstadter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804716024
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Faith in Crisis written by Richard J. Helmstadter and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Lance St. John Butler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Doubt written by Lance St. John Butler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191537055
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis of Doubt written by Timothy Larsen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-11-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian crisis of faith has dominated discussions of religion and the Victorians. Stories are frequently told of prominent Victorians such as George Eliot losing their faith. This crisis is presented as demonstrating the intellectual weakness of Christianity as it was assaulted by new lines of thought such as Darwinism and biblical criticism. This study serves as a corrective to that narrative. It focuses on freethinking and Secularist leaders who came to faith. As sceptics, they had imbibed all the latest ideas that seemed to undermine faith; nevertheless, they went on to experience a crisis of doubt, and then to defend in their writings and lectures the intellectual cogency of Christianity. The Victorian crisis of doubt was surprisingly large. Telling this story serves to restore its true proportion and to reveal the intellectual strength of faith in the nineteenth century.

Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107005132
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel written by Deirdre David and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.

Author : Caroline Levine
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813922171
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Serious Pleasures of Suspense written by Caroline Levine and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long recognized that narrative suspense dominates the formal dynamics of 19th-century British fiction. This study argues that various 19th-century thinkers - John Ruskin, Michael Faraday, Charlotte Bronte - saw suspense as a vehicle for a new approach to knowledge called "realism".

Author : Philip Davis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444304626
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Victorian Literature Still Matters written by Philip Davis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionatedefense of Victorian literature’s enduring impact andimportance for readers interested in the relationship betweenliterature and life, reading and thinking. Explores the prominence of Victorian literature forcontemporary readers and academics, through the author’sunique insight into why it is still important today Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian worksof literature and close readings of important texts Argues for a new engagement with Victorian literature, fromgeneral readers and scholars alike Seeks to remove Victorian literature from an entrenched set ofvalues, traditions and perspectives - demonstrating how vital andresonant it is for modern literary and cultural analysis

Author : Elisabeth Jay
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Doubt in Victorian Britain written by Elisabeth Jay and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Gilmour
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317871308
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Period written by Robin Gilmour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics and art. It examines the developments which radically changed the intellectual climate and illustrates how their manifestations permeated Victorian literature. The author begins by establishing the social and institutional framework in which intellectual and cultural life developed. Special attention is paid to the reform agenda of new groups which challenged traditional society, and this perspective informs Gilmour's discussion throughout the book. He assesses Victorian religion, science and politics in their own terms and in relation to the larger cultural politics of the middle-class challenge to traditionalism. Familiar topics, such as the Oxford Movement and Darwinism, are seen afresh, and those once neglected areas which are now increasingly important to modern scholars are brought into clear focus, such as Victorian agnosticism, the politics of gender, 'Englishness', and photography. The most innovative feature of this compelling study is the prominence given to the contemporary preoccupation with time. The Victorians' time-hauntedness emerges as the defining feature of their civilisation - the remote time of geology and evolution, the public time of history, the private time of autobiography.

Author : SarahGlendon Lyons
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351577050
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater written by SarahGlendon Lyons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did literary aestheticism emerge in Victorian Britain, with its competing models of religious doubt and visions of secularisation? For Lyons, the aestheticism developed and progressively revised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) and Walter Pater (1839-1894) illuminates the contradictory impulses of modern secularism: on the one hand, a desire to cast itself as a form of neutrality or disinterestedness; on the other, a desire to affirm 'this world' as the place of human flourishing or even enchantment. The standard narrative of a 'crisis of faith' does not do justice to the fissured, uncertain quality of Victorian visions of secularisation. Precisely because it had the status of a confusing hypothesis rather than a self-evident reality, it provoked not only dread and melancholia, but also forms of fantasy. Within this context Lyons gives a fundamentally new account of the aims and nature of Victorian aestheticism, taking as a focus its deceptively simple claim that art is for art's sake first of all.