Liturgy, ritual, and secularization in nineteenth-century British literature /
"Liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms - bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of religious buildings. Uncovering a nineteenth-century fascination with liturgy, Joseph McQueen here shows how Romantic and Victorian writers used such forms in their work to invest ordin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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| Summary: | "Liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms - bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of religious buildings. Uncovering a nineteenth-century fascination with liturgy, Joseph McQueen here shows how Romantic and Victorian writers used such forms in their work to invest ordinary material life with spiritual and ethical meaning"-- |
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| Physical Description: | x, 241 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009435956 1009435957 9781009435925 1009435922 |