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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index. |
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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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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 Eliot's works more or less chronologically because of the deeply evolutionary quality to Eliot's career. In a personal sense, she is loathe to repeat herself and, while readers might recognize situations that she is revisiting, she always needs to believe in her own development as a writer. In her letters she repeatedly champions her first stories, for example, largely because they contain "ideas" that she doubts she "can ever embody again." In a broader sense this is an important idea, however, in that her philosophy was grounded in a belief in the idea of progress. Orr engages in close readings of Eliot's writings to demonstrate how deeply the novelist's religious imagination operate in her fiction and poetry. |
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Religion.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvMwKPTBbBxRWQxdcrH4q
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Evolution (Biology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Evolution (Biology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Religion
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: George Eliot's religious imagination Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018. 9780810135895 (DLC) 2017029797 |
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9780810135888 (softcover) |
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9780810135895 (hardcover) |
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9780810135901 (e-book) |
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0810135906 (electronic bk.) |
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0810135892 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0810135884 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780810135901 (electronic bk.) |
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GBVCP 101459989X |
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AU@ 000066532486 |
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AU@ 000063826337 |
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