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The Antagonist Principle: John Henry Newman and the Paradox of Personality (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Lawrence Poston
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Description for The Antagonist Principle: John Henry Newman and the Paradox of Personality (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Hardcover. "Drawing on biographical, historical, literary, and theological scholarship, this book considers the alternating roles of aggression and self-effacement in Newman's own personality and writing" -- Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC7; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
The Antagonist Principle is a critical examination of the works and sometimes controversial public career of John Henry Newman (1801–1890), first as an Anglican and then as Victorian England’s most famous convert to Roman Catholicism at a time when such a conversion was not only a minority choice but in some quarters a deeply offensive one. Lawrence Poston adopts the idea of personality as his theme, not only in the modern sense of warring elements in one’s own temperament and relationships with others but also in a theological sense as a central premise of orthodox Trinitarian Christian doctrine. The principle ... Read more
The Antagonist Principle is a critical examination of the works and sometimes controversial public career of John Henry Newman (1801–1890), first as an Anglican and then as Victorian England’s most famous convert to Roman Catholicism at a time when such a conversion was not only a minority choice but in some quarters a deeply offensive one. Lawrence Poston adopts the idea of personality as his theme, not only in the modern sense of warring elements in one’s own temperament and relationships with others but also in a theological sense as a central premise of orthodox Trinitarian Christian doctrine. The principle ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936338
SKU
V9780813936338
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About Lawrence Poston
Lawrence Poston is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
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