The English cult of literature: devoted readers, 1774-1880
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| Item Description: | Literaturverz. S. [291] - 313 Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| adam_text | What
tion William McKelvy asks in
of Literatim·. Is it a theory of interpretation or a
physical activity, a process determined by herme-
neutic destiny or by paper, ink, hands, and eyes?
McKelvy seeks to transform the nineteenth-
century held of Religion and Literature into
Reading and Religion, emphasizing both the
material and the institutional contexts for each.
In doing so, lie hopes to recover the ways in
which modern literary authority developed in
dialogue with a politically reconfigured religious
authority.
The assumption has been that England s liter¬
ary tradition was modernity s most promising
religion because the established forms of Christi¬
anity, wounded in the Enlightenment, inevitably
gave up their hold on the imagination and on the
political sphere. Through a series of case stud¬
ies and analysis of a diverse range of writing, this
work gives life to a very different story, one that
shows literature assuming a religious vocation
in concert with an increasingly unencumbered
freedom of religious confession and the making
of a reading nation. In the process the author
shifts attention away from the idea of the literary
critic
religious professionals
the authority of print.
Indebted to recent findings of book history
and newer historiographies at odds with conven¬
tional secularization theory, this work makes an
interdisciplinary contribution to revising the ex¬
isting models for understanding change in Britain
during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction i
one Orthodox Narratives of Literary Sacralization 9
two Zealous Protestants in Literature: Lowth, Warton,
and Percy 36
three Entertaining Salvation: Scott s Jovial Priests 93
four Common Things Hallowed: Keble and Macaulay 127
five Primitive Traditions and Modern Readers: Gladstone s
Homer 180
six Clerical Fictions: Eliot s Scribal Authority 221
Conclusion: Sacred Anthologies in the Age of Paper 255
Notes 273
Works Cited 291
Index 315
Illustrations
1. Dr. Syntax Bookseiler 22
2. Dr. Prosody Correcting His Proof in a Printing office 23
3. Robert Lowth 42
4. Thomas Percy 74
5. The Lady in Her Secret Bower 112
6. Hursley Churchyard with Porch and Vicarage 153
7. The Lament of the Hebrew Minstrel 177
8. Critics 182
9. Two Girls from the Period 235
10. Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing 268
11. A Wolf in Sheep s Clothing 269
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| adam_txt |
What
tion William McKelvy asks in
of Literatim·. Is it a theory of interpretation or a
physical activity, a process determined by herme-
neutic destiny or by paper, ink, hands, and eyes?
McKelvy seeks to transform the nineteenth-
century held of "Religion and Literature'" into
"Reading and Religion," emphasizing both the
material and the institutional contexts for each.
In doing so, lie hopes to recover the ways in
which modern literary authority developed in
dialogue with a politically reconfigured religious
authority.
The assumption has been that England's liter¬
ary tradition was modernity's most promising
religion because the established forms of Christi¬
anity, wounded in the Enlightenment, inevitably
gave up their hold on the imagination and on the
political sphere. Through a series of case stud¬
ies and analysis of a diverse range of writing, this
work gives life to a very different story, one that
shows literature assuming a religious vocation
in concert with an increasingly unencumbered
freedom of religious confession and the making
of a reading nation. In the process the author
shifts attention away from the idea of the literary
critic
religious professionals
the authority of print.
Indebted to recent findings of book history
and newer historiographies at odds with conven¬
tional secularization theory, this work makes an
interdisciplinary contribution to revising the ex¬
isting models for understanding change in Britain
during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction i
one Orthodox Narratives of Literary Sacralization 9
two Zealous Protestants in Literature: Lowth, Warton,
and Percy 36
three Entertaining Salvation: Scott's Jovial Priests 93
four Common Things Hallowed: Keble and Macaulay 127
five Primitive Traditions and Modern Readers: Gladstone's
Homer 180
six Clerical Fictions: Eliot's Scribal Authority 221
Conclusion: Sacred Anthologies in the Age of Paper 255
Notes 273
Works Cited 291
Index 315
Illustrations
1. "Dr. Syntax Bookseiler" 22
2. "Dr. Prosody Correcting His Proof in a Printing office 23
3. Robert Lowth 42
4. Thomas Percy 74
5. The Lady in Her Secret Bower 112
6. "Hursley Churchyard with Porch and Vicarage" 153
7. "The Lament of the Hebrew Minstrel" 177
8. "Critics" 182
9. "Two Girls from the Period" 235
10. "Caxton Showing the First Specimen of His Printing" 268
11. "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" 269 |
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