Research Catalog

Title

Religious humanism and the Victorian novel: George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler, by U.C. Knoepflmacher.

Author

Knoepflmacher, U. C.

Publication

Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1965.

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Details

Description

315 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• 1800-1899
• English fiction > 19th century
• Humanism, Religious
• Christianity and religious humanism
• English fiction
• Humanism, Religious
• Literatura Inglesa (Historia E Critica)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• 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) -- The "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. The "atmospheres" of Marius the Epicurean: The pilgrimage of Marius (a) -- The pilgrimage of Marius (b) -- The Christian death of a pagan -- 7. Samuel Butler: the search for a religious crossing: The creation of a faith (1859-1872) -- The consolidation of a faith (1873-1886) -- 8. Reality and Utopia in The way of all flesh: The "past selves" of Ernest Pontifex -- The conversion of Ernest Pontifex -- The creed of Ernest Pontifex.

ISBN

• 0691061122
• 9780691061122

LCCN

65010828

OCLC

• ocm00350406
• 350406
• SCSB-8870684

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library