Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel : George Eliot, Walter Pater and Samuel Butler / U. C. Knoepflmacher
1965, 1st edition. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #421276
Physical description; (315 pages), 21 cm. Contents; Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Religion, Evolution, and the Novel -- II. George Eliot: The Search for a Religious Tradition -- III. Middlemarch: The Balance of Progress -- IV. Daniel Deronda: Tradition as Synthesis and Salvation -- V. Walter Pater: The Search for a Religious Atmosphere -- VI. The "Atmospheres" of Martus the Epicurean -- VII. Samuel Butler: The Search for a Religious Crossing -- VIII. Reality and Utopia in The Way of All Flesh -- Appendix I -- Index. Subjects; Eliot, George 1819-1880 Criticism and interpretation. Pater, Walter 1839-1894 Criticism and interpretation. Butler, Samuel 1835-1902. PATER, Walter Horatio 1839-1894. English fiction 19th century. English fiction 19th century. Humanism, Religious. European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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