Bible and novel : narrative authority and the death of God / Norman Vance.
Bible and novel : narrative authority and the death of God / Norman Vance.
Bible and novel : narrative authority and the death of God / Norman Vance.
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Date
2013.
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G 2014/4024
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 233 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
God and the Bible, Secularisms and Novels -- The Authority of the Bible -- The Crisis of Biblical Authority -- George Eliot s Secular Scriptures -- Thomas Hardy: the Church and the Negation of Christianity -- Mary Ward and the Problems of History -- Rider Haggard: Adventures with the Numinous -- Con...
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2013.
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Summary
"The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining. Did the novel supplant the Bible? The novelists often adopted or participated in a broadly progressive narrative of social change which can be seen as a secular replacement for the theologic...
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Bible and novel : narrative authority and the death of God / Norman Vance.
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Bible & novel.
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General note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-226) and index.
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G 2014/4024
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74VKvb2RXXbl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKvb2RXXbl
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ISBN
0199680574
9780199680573
DDC
823.809382
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991021646249702626
