This book explores how a group of Victorian literary writers - including George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold - became interested in the emerging anthropology of religion, which sought to explain religion not in terms of doctrines or beliefs but as a function of race or ethnicity.
This book explores how a group of Victorian literary writers - including George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold - became interested in the emerging anthropology of religion, which sought to explain religion not in terms of doctrines or beliefs but as a function of race or ethnicity.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sebastian Lecourt received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston. His work focuses on Victorian literature and questions of secularization, colonialism, and world literature. His essays have also appeared in PMLA, Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Literature Compass , and he has held fellowships at the Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University, and Universität Konstanz. He is working on a new book project entitled The Genres of Comparative Religion, 1783-1947.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Victorian Anthropology and Victorian Secularity * 1: The Rubicon of Language: Max Müller, Evangelical Anthropology, and the History of True Religion * 2: Arnoldian Secularism: Race and Political Theology from Celtic Literature to Literature and Dogma * 3: History's Second-Hand Bookshop: Self-Cultivation and Scripturality in Daniel Deronda and The Spanish Gypsy * 4: A More Liberal Surrender: Aestheticism, Asceticism, and Walter Pater's Erotics of Conversion * 5: National Supernaturalism: Andrew Lang, World Literature, and the Limits of Eclecticism * Coda: Aesthetic Secularism
* Introduction: Victorian Anthropology and Victorian Secularity * 1: The Rubicon of Language: Max Müller, Evangelical Anthropology, and the History of True Religion * 2: Arnoldian Secularism: Race and Political Theology from Celtic Literature to Literature and Dogma * 3: History's Second-Hand Bookshop: Self-Cultivation and Scripturality in Daniel Deronda and The Spanish Gypsy * 4: A More Liberal Surrender: Aestheticism, Asceticism, and Walter Pater's Erotics of Conversion * 5: National Supernaturalism: Andrew Lang, World Literature, and the Limits of Eclecticism * Coda: Aesthetic Secularism
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