Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth Century British - Literatur

"Liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms - bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of religious buildings. Uncovering a nineteenth-century fascination with liturgy, Joseph McQueen here shows how Romantic and Victorian writers used such forms in their work to invest ordinary material life with spiritual and ethical meaning"--

Sommario

1. Mediating the modern: Wordsworth's Liturgical Subjectivity; 2. Memory and revolution: ritual time in Wordsworth's Prelude; 3. Tractarian liturgies: John Keble, Charlotte Yonge, and the deification of ordinary life; 4. Realist liturgies: enfleshing ethics in the novels of George Eliot and Mary Ward; 5. Liturgical aestheticism: Walter Pater's sacralization of the body; 6. Against immanence: Oscar Wilde's liturgical constructivism; Epilogue.

Info autore

Joseph McQueen is Associate Professor of English at Northwest University (Kirkland, Washington). His chapter on 'Rituals and Sacraments' will appear in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Religion in Victorian Literary Culture. He has published articles in SEL Studies in English Literature, European Romantic Review, and Christianity & Literature.

Riassunto

Liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms – bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of religious buildings. Uncovering a nineteenth-century fascination with liturgy, Joseph McQueen here shows how Romantic and Victorian writers used such forms in their work to invest ordinary material life with spiritual and ethical meaning.

Prefazione

A paradigm-shifting account of how nineteenth-century writers drew on liturgy to invest the material with spiritual and ethical meaning.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joseph McQueen, Joseph (Northwest University) Mcqueen
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2024
• EAN: 9781009435956
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0943595-6
• Pagine: 262
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christian life & practice, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Christian life and practice, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Literary studies: poetry and poets