| Description |
x, 361 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Fall of Jerusalem: Coleridge's unwritten epic -- 2. The visionary character: revelation and the lyrical ballad -- 3. The oriental idyll -- 4. Hoḻderlin's 'Patmos' ode and 'Kubla Khan': mythological doubling -- 5. Browning's St John: the casuistry of the higher criticism -- 6. Daniel Deronda and the conventions of fiction -- Appendices -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Dr Schaffer outlines the development of the mythological school of European Biblical criticism, especially its German origins and its reception in England, and studies the influence of this movement in the work of specific writers: Coleridge Hölderlin, Browning, and George Eliot. The 'higher criticism' treated sacred scripture as literature and as history, as the product of its time, and the highest expression of a developing group consciousness; it challenged current views on the authorship and dating of the Pentateuch and the Gospels, on inspiration, prophecy, and canonicity, and formulated a new apologetics closely linked with the growth of Romantic aesthetics. The importance of this study is that it shows that readings of specific literary texts can intersect with general movements of thought and action through the scrutiny of a clearly defined intellectual discipline, here the higher criticism, which developed as a particular expression of the larger trends in the history of the period. Dr Shaffer throws light on individual works of literature, the formation between England and Germany, and the bases of European Romanticism |
| Analysis |
English literature 1770-1880 Influence of historical criticism of Bible |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Includes the text in English and German of F. Hölderlin's Patmos |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 346-356 |
| Subject |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Religion and ethics
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Religion.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Kubla Khan.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
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| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013621
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Bible -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013818
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| Subject |
Comparative literature -- English and German.
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Comparative literature -- German and English.
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| Author |
Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843.
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Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843.
Patmos. English and German. 1975
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| LC no. |
74079141 |
| ISBN |
052120478X |
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