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Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing

Autor Kevin Mills
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2007
This volume explores a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, sermons, and some less easily categorized writings, in terms of their use of language and imagery suggestive of the Apocalypse. The focus is less upon the conscious or deliberate use of the Apocalypse as a source of sublime metaphors or as a guide to cultural decline than on the ways in which certain tropes recur in the writings of the period. These can be characterized in terms of oppositions that both structure apocalyptic literature and characterize much Victorian writing: human/inhuman, desert/city, veiled/revealed, time/the eternal, this world/other world. The book sets out to show that what might be called a cultural affinity exists between the writing of the Victorian era and apocalyptic literature, and to argue that such a relationship was unavoidable for a society steeped in the bible as it confronted dramatic changes in its relationships with nature, God, and time.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781611482379
ISBN-10: 1611482372
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 158 x 238 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bucknell University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

The lucid and sensitive readings in this monograph enrich our understanding. They reveal a great deal about the layers of Victorian apocalypse, without ever removing the veil imagined so powerfully by different apocalyptic writers.