George Eliot's Religious Imagination : A Theopoetics of Evolution /

George Eliot's Religious Imagination : A Theopoetics of Evolution /

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In this study, Orr attributes to George Eliot an 'incarnational aesthetic' and reads her work in the light of it. Writing, she argues, might be said to have become the novelist's religion and 'its most recognizable tenet was the living out of incarnation'. Here, Orr examines...

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Main Author: Orr, Marilyn, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Religion.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Criticism and interpretation.
Religion.
Evolution (Biology) > Religious aspects > Christianity.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Incarnation and inwardness : George Eliot's early works in the context of contemporary religious debates
  • "Even our failures are a prophecy" : toward a post-evangelical aesthetic
  • Religion in a secular world : Middlemarch and the mysticism of the everyday
  • "The religion of the future" : Daniel Deronda and the mystical imagination
  • Evolutionary spirituality and the theopoetical imagination : George Eliot and Teilhard de Chardin
  • Conclusion: The Word continuously incarnated.

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