The sun is God
Subtitle: painting, literature, and mythology in the nineteenth century
By: edited by J.B. Bullen.
Contributors: Bullen, J. B.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Turner, J. M. W. 1775-1851 -- Themes, motives.; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Mythology in literature.; Sun -- In literature.; Sun -- Mythology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Romantic Manichaeism : Shelley's "On the devil, and devils" and Byron's mythological dramas / Marilyn Butler; title: J.M.W. Turner and solar myth / John Gage; title: Tennyson's "The lady of Shalott" : Victorian mythography and the politics of narcissism / Isobel Armstrong; title: "The sun is God" : Ruskin's solar mythology / Dinah Birch; title: The sun of faith, the shadow of doubt : language and knowledge in Swinburne's myth of Apollo / Thaïs E. Morgan; title: "The death of the sun" : Victorian solar physics and solar myth / Gillian Beer; title: The gods in Wessex exile : Thomas Hardy and mythology / J.B. Bullen; title: Conclusion : myth and meta-myth in Max Müller and Walter Pater / Steven Connor.