Author: Tom Hubbard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134977220
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the ‘colour’ Fairy Books which he compiled between 1889 and 1910. This three volume set presents a selection of his work in these areas. The first volume covers the general and theoretical aspects of Lang’s work on folklore, mythology and anthropology along with the tools and concepts which he used in his often combative contributions to these inter-related disciplines. Collectively, the General Introduction to the set and the Introductions to the individual volumes offer a thorough overview of Lang’s work in an astonishing variety of fields, including his translation work on Homer and his contributions to historiography (particularly Scottish). Headnotes to the individual items are of varying length and provide more detail on specific topics, and explanatory notes supply unique intellectual comment rather than merely factual information.
The Selected Writings of Andrew Lang
Author: Tom Hubbard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134977220
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the ‘colour’ Fairy Books which he compiled between 1889 and 1910. This three volume set presents a selection of his work in these areas. The first volume covers the general and theoretical aspects of Lang’s work on folklore, mythology and anthropology along with the tools and concepts which he used in his often combative contributions to these inter-related disciplines. Collectively, the General Introduction to the set and the Introductions to the individual volumes offer a thorough overview of Lang’s work in an astonishing variety of fields, including his translation work on Homer and his contributions to historiography (particularly Scottish). Headnotes to the individual items are of varying length and provide more detail on specific topics, and explanatory notes supply unique intellectual comment rather than merely factual information.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134977220
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the ‘colour’ Fairy Books which he compiled between 1889 and 1910. This three volume set presents a selection of his work in these areas. The first volume covers the general and theoretical aspects of Lang’s work on folklore, mythology and anthropology along with the tools and concepts which he used in his often combative contributions to these inter-related disciplines. Collectively, the General Introduction to the set and the Introductions to the individual volumes offer a thorough overview of Lang’s work in an astonishing variety of fields, including his translation work on Homer and his contributions to historiography (particularly Scottish). Headnotes to the individual items are of varying length and provide more detail on specific topics, and explanatory notes supply unique intellectual comment rather than merely factual information.
The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The English Catalogue of Books
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Pages : 120
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Pages : 120
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Cultivating Belief
Author: Sebastian Lecourt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192540599
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically constructed religion as a zone of personal belief that defined modern individuality and interiority. During the 1860s, however, Eliot, Arnold, and other literary liberals began to claim that religion could actually do the most for the modern self when it came as a kind of involuntary inheritance. Stimulated by the emerging science of anthropology, they imagined that religious experiences embedded in race or ethnicity could render the self heterogeneous, while the individual who insisted upon selecting his or her own beliefs would become narrow and parochial. By rethinking the grounds of religion, this book argues, these writers were ultimately trying to shift liberal individualism away from a classical Protestant liberalism that celebrated interiority and agency and toward one that valorized eclecticism and the capacity to keep multiple values in play. More broadly, their work offers us a new picture of secularization, not as a process of religious decline, but as the reinscription of religion as an ordinary feature of human life—like art, or politics, or sex—whose function could be debated.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192540599
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically constructed religion as a zone of personal belief that defined modern individuality and interiority. During the 1860s, however, Eliot, Arnold, and other literary liberals began to claim that religion could actually do the most for the modern self when it came as a kind of involuntary inheritance. Stimulated by the emerging science of anthropology, they imagined that religious experiences embedded in race or ethnicity could render the self heterogeneous, while the individual who insisted upon selecting his or her own beliefs would become narrow and parochial. By rethinking the grounds of religion, this book argues, these writers were ultimately trying to shift liberal individualism away from a classical Protestant liberalism that celebrated interiority and agency and toward one that valorized eclecticism and the capacity to keep multiple values in play. More broadly, their work offers us a new picture of secularization, not as a process of religious decline, but as the reinscription of religion as an ordinary feature of human life—like art, or politics, or sex—whose function could be debated.
Catalogue, May, 1897
Author: Branford (Conn.). James Blackstone Memorial Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Extraordinary Collection of First Editions of American and English Authors Belonging to F.D. Brandon ...
Author: F. D. Brandon
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia
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Pages : 28
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Pages : 28
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The Indiana University Bookman
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Extraordinary Collection of First Editions of American and English Authors
Author: Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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