Research Catalog

Title

The Victorian sage : studies in argument / by John Holloway.

Author

Holloway, John, 1920-1999

Publication

London, Macmillan, 1953.

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Holdings

Details

Description

viii, 300 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881
• Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
• Eliot, George, 1819-1880
• Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890
• Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888
• Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
• 1800-1899
• Geistesgeschichte 1800-1900
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• Imprint covered by label: New York, St. Martin's Press.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[Carlyle] -- 'Life-philosophy' knowledge -- The live cosmos -- The ocean rolling around the islet -- Shams and diabolisms -- The growth of metaphor -- The control of meaning -- Paradox and truism -- [Carlyle as prophet-historian] -- Didactic history -- The French Revolution -- Frederick the Great -- [Disraeli] -- Is Disraeli a Sage at all? -- Tradition and change -- 'A motley sparkling multitude' -- Ideals and realities -- [George Eliot] -- Preliminary : Silas Marner -- General features of the novels -- The basic selection -- The ethics -- The methods : character -- Incident and scene -- Situation and dialogue -- Metaphor -- The control of meaning -- [Newman] -- The system of reality and knowledge -- The course of things -- Newman's personality and tone -- Forms of argument -- Illustrations : the Church and the world -- Imagery in Newman -- Suggestive example -- Control of meaning in Newman -- [Matthew Arnold] -- Arnold's doctrine and temper -- Forms of argument -- The value frame -- Definitions -- Articulating the argument : Arnold and his opponents -- Irony -- [Hardy] -- Introduction -- The course of things -- The system of nature -- Man and the system of nature -- Society, a microcosm of nature -- The human deviation -- Conclusion.

LCCN

^^^53006405^

OCLC

• 355246
• SCSB-13221822

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library