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The sun is God : painting, literature, and mythology in the nineteenth century

Title
The sun is God : painting, literature, and mythology in the nineteenth century / edited by J.B. Bullen.
Publication
Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Additional Authors
Bullen, J. B.
Description
viii, 230 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Turner, J. M. W. 1775-1851 > Themes, motives
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Mythology in literature
  • Sun > In literature
  • Sun > Mythology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Romantic Manichaeism : Shelley's 'On the devil, and devils' and Byron's mythological dramas / Marilyn Butler -- J.M.W. Turner and solar myth / John Gage -- Tennyson's 'The lady of Shalott' : VIctorian mythography and the politics of narcissism / Isobel Armstrong -- 'The sun is God' : Ruskin's solar mythology / Dinah Birch -- The sun of faith, the shadow of doubt : language and knowledge in Swinburne's myth of Apollo / Thaïs E. Morgan -- 'The death of the sun' : Victorian solar physics and solar myth / Gillian Beer -- The gods in Wessex exile : Thomas Hardy and mythology / J.B. Bullen -- Conclusion : myth and metamyth in Max Müller and Walter Pater / Steven Connor.
ISBN
0198128843 :
LCCN
88017031
OCLC
  • ocm18050665
  • SCSB-14164627
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library