Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature
Subtitle: An Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780199277100
Subjects: Christianity; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Poetry & poets: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; England; English literature; History; History and criticism; Religion and literature
First sentence: AT the end of his essay, 'Hebraism and Hellenism' (1869), Matthew Arnold strikes a troubled note of concern regarding his fellow Victorians, at sea without the stability of an unquestioned Christianity for support, and desperate for a new guiding force.