Amy M. King

The Divine in the Commonplace

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Produktbeschreibung

Elegantly and persuasively argues that natural theology was an important presence, not only in the natural histories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but also in the novels of the same period. Will appeal to students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and historians of science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781108730181
• ISBN-10: 1108730183
• Artikelnr.: 60799444

Autorenporträt

Amy M. King is Associate Professor of English at St John's University, New York. She is the author of Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel (2003)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: natural history, the theology of nature, and the novel; 1.
Reverent natural history, the sketch, and the novel: modes of English
realism in White, Mitford, and Austen; 2. Early Victorian natural history:
reverent empiricism and the aesthetic of the commonplace; 3. The formal
realism of reverent natural history: tidepools, aquaria and the seashore
natural histories of P. H. Gosse and G. H. Lewes; 4. Reverence at the
seashore: seashore natural history, Charles Kingsley's Two Years Ago
(1855), and Margaret Gatty's Parables from Nature (1857); 5. Seeing the
divine in the commonplace: George Eliot's paranaturalist realism,
1856-1859; 6. Elizabeth Gaskell's everyday: Reverent form and natural
theology in Sylvia's Lovers (1863) and Wives and Daughters (1866);
Epilogue: Barsetshire via Selborne: Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle
of Barset (1867).