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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Prickett is Regius Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Glasgow! and an Honorary Professor of the University of Kent! at Canterbury. From 2003-8 he was Director of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University! Waco! Texas. From 1967 to 1982 he taught at the University of Sussex! before moving to the Chair of English at the Australian National University in Canberra (1983-89). He is President of the George MacDonald Society His publications include one novel! nine monographs! seven edited volumes! and over ninety articles on Romanticism! Victorian Studies and related topics! especially on literature and theology. Klappentext An original investigation into how tradition has developed over the centuries into our modern understanding of the term. Zusammenfassung An important contribution to literature! history and theology! this sweeping work shows how people manufacture their own idea of truth! customs! or ancient wisdom to make sense of the past in terms of a problematic present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: ancient & modern: the Braid of Cassiodorus; 1. Tradition, literacy and change; 2. Church versus Scripture: idea of Biblical tradition; 3. Tradition and revolution; 4. Envisioning the past: metaphors and symbols of tradition; 5. Re-inventing Christian culture: Volney, Chateaubriand and the French Revolution; 6. Herder, Schleiermacher, Novalis, and Schlegel: the idea of a Christian Europe?; 7. Translating Herder: the idea of Protestant Romanticism; 8. Keble and the Anglican tradition; 9. Newman and the development of tradition; 10. Arnold: taking religion out of religion; 11. Radical tradition: theologizing Eliot; Epilogue: re-energizing the past; Appendix: Velázquez and the Royal Boar Hunt; Bibliography; Index.
