William Myers

The Presence of Persons (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Literature, Science and Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with important aspects of nineteenth-century culture, literary, philosophical and scientific, which remain live issues today. It examines in detail the writings of Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, James Hamilton, Eliot Mill, Arnold, Pater and Newman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351883573
• Artikelnr.: 49355268

Autorenporträt

William has been a minister for 42 years. He has served congregations in Virginia, Tennssee, Indiana, California, North Dakota, and Ohio. He holds 4 undergraduate degrees and three graduate degrees. He has authored several books, and views his wife, Brenda, as his greatest supporter.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Nothing new
Part One: The Presence of Persons: Where are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson and Daniel C. Dennett?
Evolution and progress: Herbert Spencer, Thomas Hardy and Amartya Sen
Why John Stuart Mill chose to go to the Devil
Walter Pater and the higher decadence
Arnold and Newman: the phenomenological option
Autobiography and the illative sense
Part Two: Manifold and Complex Corruption: Celibate men and angelic women in Oliver Twist
The radicalism of Little Dorrit
Part Three: Luminously Self-Evident Beings: The Feral children of Haworth: Charlotte and Emily BrontÃ'
Fragments of consciousness: the poems of Emily BrontÃ'
The rights of celibacy
Part Four: The Management of our Hearts: The two eternities: race and soul in Daniel Deronda
Justice and freedom: The Portrait of a Lady
Notes
Index.