Author: William Archer
Publisher:
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Category : Agnosticism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
God and Mr. Wells
Author: William Archer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agnosticism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agnosticism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
God and Mr. Wells
Author: William Archer
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
God and Mr. Wells: A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King'
Author: William Archer
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
This book is a response to a theological tract written by H. G. Wells entitled 'God the Invisible King'. In it, Wells rejects any belief related to God as Nature or the Creator, confining himself to the "finite" God "of the human heart." He devotes a chapter to misconceptions about God that are due to mistaken "mental elaboration" as opposed to "heresies of speculation," and says that the God in which he believes has nothing to do with magic, providence, quietism, punishment, the threatening of children, or sexual ethics. The author of this work has a opinion that opposes one that is held by H. G. Wells, which he lays out in length in this book.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
This book is a response to a theological tract written by H. G. Wells entitled 'God the Invisible King'. In it, Wells rejects any belief related to God as Nature or the Creator, confining himself to the "finite" God "of the human heart." He devotes a chapter to misconceptions about God that are due to mistaken "mental elaboration" as opposed to "heresies of speculation," and says that the God in which he believes has nothing to do with magic, providence, quietism, punishment, the threatening of children, or sexual ethics. The author of this work has a opinion that opposes one that is held by H. G. Wells, which he lays out in length in this book.
Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture
Author: Suzanne Hobson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192846477
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This volume offers a new account of the relationship between literary and secularist scenes of writing in interwar Britain. Organized secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that lived and died with the nineteenth century. But associations such as the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association survived into the twentieth and found new purpose in the promotion and publishing of serious literature. This book assembles a group of literary figures whose work was recommended as being of particular interest to the unbelieving readership targeted by these organisations. Some, including Vernon Lee, H.G. Wells, Naomi Mitchison, and K.S. Bhat, were members or friends of the R.P.A.; others, such as Mary Butts, were sceptical but nonetheless registered its importance in their work; a third group, including D.H. Lawrence and George Moore, wrote in ways seen as sympathetic to the Rationalist cause. All of these writers produced fiction that was experimental in form and, though few of them could be described as modernist, they shared with modernist writers a will to innovate. This book explores how Rationalist ideas were adapted and transformed by these experiments, focusing in particular on the modifications required to accommodate the strong mode of unbelief associated with British secularism to the notional mode of belief usually solicited by fiction. Whereas modernism is often understood as the literature for a secular age, Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture looks elsewhere to find a literature that draws more directly on secularism for its aesthetics and its ethics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192846477
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This volume offers a new account of the relationship between literary and secularist scenes of writing in interwar Britain. Organized secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that lived and died with the nineteenth century. But associations such as the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association survived into the twentieth and found new purpose in the promotion and publishing of serious literature. This book assembles a group of literary figures whose work was recommended as being of particular interest to the unbelieving readership targeted by these organisations. Some, including Vernon Lee, H.G. Wells, Naomi Mitchison, and K.S. Bhat, were members or friends of the R.P.A.; others, such as Mary Butts, were sceptical but nonetheless registered its importance in their work; a third group, including D.H. Lawrence and George Moore, wrote in ways seen as sympathetic to the Rationalist cause. All of these writers produced fiction that was experimental in form and, though few of them could be described as modernist, they shared with modernist writers a will to innovate. This book explores how Rationalist ideas were adapted and transformed by these experiments, focusing in particular on the modifications required to accommodate the strong mode of unbelief associated with British secularism to the notional mode of belief usually solicited by fiction. Whereas modernism is often understood as the literature for a secular age, Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture looks elsewhere to find a literature that draws more directly on secularism for its aesthetics and its ethics.
H.G. Wells Under Revision
Author: Patrick Parrinder
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780945636052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Dissatisfied with her relationship with her boyfriend, Constance Wechselburger, a graduate film student, embarks on a disheartening, confusing quest in search of her vision of the ideal intellectual mate.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780945636052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Dissatisfied with her relationship with her boyfriend, Constance Wechselburger, a graduate film student, embarks on a disheartening, confusing quest in search of her vision of the ideal intellectual mate.
Books of 1912-
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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H.G. Wells
Author: W. Warren Wagar
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819567253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A look inside one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819567253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A look inside one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.
General Catalogue of the Library of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: Subjects
Author: Library of the Asiatic Society of Bombay and the Central Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
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The Humanist
Author:
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Category : Ethical culture movement
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Category : Ethical culture movement
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
America To-day, Observations and Reflections
Author: William Archer
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
America Today is a critical look at the present state of American politics and society by William Archer. Excerpt: "LETTER I The Straits of New York—When is a Ship not a Ship?—Nationality of Passengers—A Dream Realized LETTER II Fog in New York Harbor—The Customs—The Note-Taker's Hyperæsthesia—A Literary Car-Conductor—Mr. Kipling and the American Public—The City of Elevators LETTER III New York a much-maligned City—Its Charm—Mr. Steevens' Antithesis—New York compared with Other Cities—Its Slums—Advertisements—Architecture in New York and Philadelphia LETTER IV Absence of Red Tape—"Rapid Transit" in New York—The Problem and its Solution—The Whirl of Life—New York by Night—The "White Magic" of the Future LETTER V Character and Culture—American Universities—Is the American "Electric" or Phlegmatic?—Alleged Laxity of the Family Tie—Postscript: The University System."
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
America Today is a critical look at the present state of American politics and society by William Archer. Excerpt: "LETTER I The Straits of New York—When is a Ship not a Ship?—Nationality of Passengers—A Dream Realized LETTER II Fog in New York Harbor—The Customs—The Note-Taker's Hyperæsthesia—A Literary Car-Conductor—Mr. Kipling and the American Public—The City of Elevators LETTER III New York a much-maligned City—Its Charm—Mr. Steevens' Antithesis—New York compared with Other Cities—Its Slums—Advertisements—Architecture in New York and Philadelphia LETTER IV Absence of Red Tape—"Rapid Transit" in New York—The Problem and its Solution—The Whirl of Life—New York by Night—The "White Magic" of the Future LETTER V Character and Culture—American Universities—Is the American "Electric" or Phlegmatic?—Alleged Laxity of the Family Tie—Postscript: The University System."