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The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880 (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
William R. McKelvy
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Hardcover. What constitutes reading? This work seeks to transform the nineteenth-century field of ""Religion and Literature"" into ""Reading and Religion,"" emphasizing both the material and the institutional contexts for each. It aims to make a contribution to various models for understanding change in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 621.
What constitutes reading? This is the question William McKelvy asks in ""The English Cult of Literature"". Is it a theory of interpretation or a physical activity, a process determined by hermeneutic destiny or by paper, ink, hands, and eyes? McKelvy seeks to transform the nineteenth-century field of ""Religion and Literature"" into ""Reading and Religion,"" emphasizing both the material and the institutional contexts for each. In doing so, he hopes to recover the ways in which modern literary authority developed in dialogue with a politically reconfigured religious authority. The received wisdom has been that England is literary tradition was modernity's most ... Read more
What constitutes reading? This is the question William McKelvy asks in ""The English Cult of Literature"". Is it a theory of interpretation or a physical activity, a process determined by hermeneutic destiny or by paper, ink, hands, and eyes? McKelvy seeks to transform the nineteenth-century field of ""Religion and Literature"" into ""Reading and Religion,"" emphasizing both the material and the institutional contexts for each. In doing so, he hopes to recover the ways in which modern literary authority developed in dialogue with a politically reconfigured religious authority. The received wisdom has been that England is literary tradition was modernity's most ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813925714
SKU
V9780813925714
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About William R. McKelvy
William R. McKelvy is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Victorian Poetry and Victorian Literature and Culture.
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