Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel: George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler

by U.C. Knoepflmacher

Book Overview

Contents: I. Religion, evolution, and the novel; 1. 1888 and a look backwards; 2. George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Samuel Butler: three types of search; II. George Eliot: the search for a religious tradition; 1. George Eliot and science; 2. George Eliot and the "higher criticism"; 3. George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and tradition; III. Middlemarch: the balance of a progress; 1. "Heart" and "mind" two forms of progress; 2. "Modes of religion" (a); 3...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691621152
• ISBN13: 9780691621159
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"