Biblical wisdom and the Victorian literary imagination /
Examining the creative thought that arose in response to 19th-century religious controversies, this book demonstrates that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted an imaginative recovery of wisdom literature. During the Victorian period, new approaches to the int...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2024].
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| Series: | New directions in religion and literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Biblical Interpretation, Victorian Writers, and Wisdom Literature
- Wisdom's Call: Poetic Dialogue and the Echoes of Job in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's A Drama of Exile
- Wisdom's Footsteps: Heuristic Pathways and Proverbial Aphorisms in George MacDonald's Phantastes
- Wisdom's Turn: Historical Recovery, Narrative Possibility, and the Direction of Biblical Parables in George Eliot's Romola
- Wisdom's Reach: Mythmaking, Incarnational Poetics, and Interpretive Limits in John Ruskin's The Queen of the Air
- Wisdom's Breath: Revelation, Concealment, and the Energy of Ecclesiastes in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm.