Research Catalog

Title

Transforming holiness : representations of holiness in English and American literary texts / edited by Irene Visser and Helen Wilcox.

Publication

Leuven ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Visser, Irene, 1955-
• Wilcox, Helen.

Description

xx, 217 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Addresses the question of how holiness has been represented in English and American literary texts from early saints' lives to the poetry of the mid-twentieth century. The interaction of spiritual ideals with the creative and often worldly imagination is examined in the work of writers as varied as George Herbert, Harriet Beecher Stowe and D.H. Lawrence. The range of genres discussed includes not only devotional poetry and apparently secfular prose fiction, but also political ballads, personal conduct books and congregational psalms and hymns. Holiness is set in relation to vital issues such as creativity, gender, Romanticism, translation, and visual culture. Together the essays reveal the full meaning of the title of the collection: that holiness, a transforming force, has transformed itself radically as a concept over the centuries, and undergoes a dynamic transformation through its expression in literature"--Jacket.

Series Statement

Groningen studies in cultural change ; v. 20

Uniform Title

Groningen studies in cultural change ; v. 20.

Subject

• Geschichte
• English literature > History and criticism
• American literature > History and criticism
• Holy, The, in literature
• American literature
• English literature
• Literatur
• Das Heilige
• Heiligheid
• Letterkunde
• Engels
• Amerikaans
• Englisch
• USA

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-211) and index.

Contents

Holier than Thou? : introduction -- Being Saint Barbara in England. Shifting patterns of holiness in the later middle ages / Mathilde van Dijk -- Translating holiness; the holiness of translation / John Ottenhoff -- 'Forgive, O Lord, forgive our trespasses' : the failure of holiness in seventeenth-century English lyric poetry / Helen Wilcox -- Politics of holiness. Royalty for the masses in The Wandring Jew's Chronicle / Henk Dragstra -- The presentation of holiness and the concept of Christian perfection in the sermons and hymns of the Wesleys, 1730-1780 / J.R. Watson -- 'The wheels of the Chariot' : religious language in English and German romanticism / David Jasper.

ISBN

• 9042917555
• 9789042917552

LCCN

2006041692

OCLC

• ocm63660981
• 63660981
• SCSB-14203737

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library