The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-century WritersUniversity of Illinois Press, 2000 - 367 pagine A landmark work of literary criticism by one of the foremost interpreters of nineteenth-century England, The Disappearance of God confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily Bronte, Matthew Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. J. Hillis Miller surveys the intellectual and material developments that conspired to cut man off from God -- among other factors the city, developments within Christianity, subjectivism, and the emergence of the modern historical sense -- and shows how each writer's body of work reflects a sustained response to the experience of God's disappearance and a unique effort to weave a new fabric of connection between God and creation. |
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The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-century Writers Joseph Hillis Miller Visualizzazione estratti - 1975 |
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Arnold Browning Browning's Carrion Comfort Cathy and Heathcliff Cathy's Charles Avison Christ consciousness created creation creature criticism death depths divine dramatic monologues earth Emily Brontë Empedocles energy escape essay eternal eternal return everything evil existence experience express fact feeling finite Gerard Manley Hopkins goal God's Gondal grace harmony heart heaven historicism Hopkins human infinite infinity inner inscape instress isolation language literature lives man's Matthew Arnold means ment metaphor mind motion mystery nature never novel once opium opium dreams Paracelsus Parmenides passage past pattern perfect pied beauty pitch poems poet poetry possession possible present Quincey Quincey's reach realm relation rhyme says second Cathy seems selfhood selftaste sense separation Sordello soul space spiritual suffering T. S. Eliot taste things Thomas De Quincey thought tion transcendent truth universe vision wandering whole words writing Wuthering Heights