Victorian Parables

Zusatztext Colon … insists on a rhetorically and historically precise understanding of parable as a literary form … She focuses especially on realist novels, which she, following Andrew H. Miller, sees as ethically freighted in a way that has yet to be adequately discussed. Her careful study does much to correct this error. Informationen zum Autor Susan E. Colón is Associate Professor of Literature in the Honors College at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, USA. She is the author of The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel: The Works of Trollope, Disraeli, George Eliot, and Gaskell (Palgrave, 2007). Vorwort A critical study of the reinscription of biblical parables in Victorian realist fiction. Zusammenfassung Offers a critical study of the reinscription of biblical parables in Victorian realist fiction. The author shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral complacency. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface \ 1. Parable as Literature, Literature as Parable \ 2. The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Parable and Realism \ 3. "The Parable of Actual Life": Charlotte Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe \ 4. Prodigal Sons in the Fiction of Margaret Oliphant \ 5. "The Agent of a Superior": Stewardship Parables in Our Mutual Friend \ Afterword \ Notes\ Bibliography \ Index

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• Authors: Susan E. Colaon, Dr Susan E. Colon, Susan E Colon, Susan E. Colon
• Assisted by: Mark Knight (Editor), Emma Mason (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.2012
• EAN: 9781441146502
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-4650-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature; New Directions in Religion & L; New Directions in Religion and Literature; New Directions in Religion and; New Directions in Religion & L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies