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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 It is impossible to understand the ideas of such Victorian theologians as Hare and Maurice! Keble and Newman without reference to contemporary literary criticism. Zusammenfassung Modern scholarship has tended to separate literature and theology. Yet it is impossible to understand the ideas of such Victorian theologians as Hare and Maurice, Keble and Newman without reference to contemporary literary criticism – just as it is impossible to understand criticism of the period (and the sensibility it implies) isolated from its theology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. `The Living Educts of the Imagination': Coleridge on Religious Language; 2. 'A Liberty of Speculation which no Christian can Tolerate' - the later Coleridge; 3. Wordsworth and the Language of Nature; 4. Keble's 'Two Worlds'; 5. F. D. Maurice : The Kingdom of Christ; 6. Newman versus Maurice : Development of Doctrine and the Growth of the Mind; 7. Newman : Imagination and Assent; 8. Demythologising and Myth-Making: Arnold versus MacDonald; 9. Summary: Tradition and the Church.
