The Sacred and Secular Canon in Romanticism
Subtitle: Preserving the Sacred Truths (Romanticism in Perspective)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780312216733
Subjects: 19th Century Literature - History And Criticism; Religious Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Religion; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Religion / Bible / General; Gothic & Romance; 19th century; English literature; German literature; History; History and criticism; Religion and literature
Description: This book focuses on some of the greatest writers and artists of European Romanticism, including S. T. Coleridge, Wordsworth, J. M. W. Turner, Goethe, Holderlin and, in the later nineteenth century, Matthew Arnold.

Concluding with a discussion of the significance of Romanticism for our understanding of postmodernity, its various chapters explore the place of the biblical canon as the central element in the shift from the sacred to the secular, and the place of the Bible in the development of our concept of Weltliteratur, or world literature, as definitive of culture. This book will be of interest to all concerned with art, literature and the development of biblical criticism and religious thought.