George Eliot's religious imagination : a theopoetics of evolution /

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In this study, Orr attributes to George Eliot an 'incarnational aesthetic' and reads her work in the light of it. Writing, she argues, might be said to have become the novelist's religion and 'its most recognizable tenet was the living out of incarnation'. Here, Orr examines...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Orr, Marilyn, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Religion.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880
Evolution (Biology) > Religious aspects > Christianity.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Evolution (Biology) > Religious aspects > Christianity
Religion
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Incarnation and inwardness : George Eliot's early works in the context of contemporary religious debates
  • "Even our failures are a prophecy" : toward a post-evangelical aesthetic
  • Religion in a secular world : Middlemarch and the mysticism of the everyday
  • "The religion of the future" : Daniel Deronda and the mystical imagination
  • Evolutionary spirituality and the theopoetical imagination : George Eliot and Teilhard de Chardin
  • Conclusion: The Word continuously incarnated.

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