Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian WritingBucknell University Press, 2007 - 228 pagina's A great deal of Victorian literature recycles themes, images, and language from apocalyptic literature, in what might be described as an affinity with the genre. With this affinity in mind, Approaching Apocalypse examines certain structuring oppositions that shape apocalyptic literature, and sets out to decode their significance for Victorian writing. They are: human/inhuman, desert/city, veiled/revealed, time/eternal, and this world/other world. The five main chapters of the book each deal with one of these opposites, reading a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, plays, sermons, and other less easily categorized texts. At the heart of each chapter is an extended reading of one or two texts selected for their particularly telling insights into the relationship between Victorian writing and the Book of Revelation. |
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Pagina 14
... experience of the people of Israel who returned to their homeland after their exile under the Assyrian and Babylonian empires ( c . 710-540 BCE ) . Their experience of restoration did not match the expecta- tions to which the prophetic ...
... experience of the people of Israel who returned to their homeland after their exile under the Assyrian and Babylonian empires ( c . 710-540 BCE ) . Their experience of restoration did not match the expecta- tions to which the prophetic ...
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... experience , must have held great appeal for people living in a century of upheaval , change , and the disappearance of familiar , long - standing , and well - established ways of life . The Victorian era was just such a time . With ...
... experience , must have held great appeal for people living in a century of upheaval , change , and the disappearance of familiar , long - standing , and well - established ways of life . The Victorian era was just such a time . With ...
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... experience . It might be argued that Darwin delivered precisely a new mode of intelligibility by which nature could be read and made to yield a new meaning . Yet , as appears in chapter 3 , in Victorian literature reality re- mains ...
... experience . It might be argued that Darwin delivered precisely a new mode of intelligibility by which nature could be read and made to yield a new meaning . Yet , as appears in chapter 3 , in Victorian literature reality re- mains ...
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... experience falls . Browning's use is more nostalgic than it is hopeful , and Barrett Browning alone among these ... experienced by those caught in the processes of urban - industrial modernization . The battle between unions and masters ...
... experience falls . Browning's use is more nostalgic than it is hopeful , and Barrett Browning alone among these ... experienced by those caught in the processes of urban - industrial modernization . The battle between unions and masters ...
Pagina 26
... experience in The Pilgrim's Progress , comparing St. John's missionary en- deavor to Greatheart's valiant battle against the demonic Apol- lyon . This is a venture that Jane has been unwilling to embark upon , having refused to marry St ...
... experience in The Pilgrim's Progress , comparing St. John's missionary en- deavor to Greatheart's valiant battle against the demonic Apol- lyon . This is a venture that Jane has been unwilling to embark upon , having refused to marry St ...
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Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian Writing Kevin Mills Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2007 |
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Pagina 150 - And he opened the bottomless pit ; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Pagina 35 - And I stood upon the sand of the sea; and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Pagina 35 - And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion : and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Pagina 48 - As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications.
Pagina 68 - London. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
Pagina 35 - And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne and round about the throne were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Pagina 35 - And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb, as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Pagina 29 - And, moved thro' life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge; under whose command Is Earth and Earth's, and in their hand Is Nature like an open book; No longer half-akin to brute, For all we thought and loved and did, And hoped, and suffer'd, is but seed Of what in them is flower and fruit; 822 Whereof the man, that with me trod This planet, was a noble type.
Pagina 35 - And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Pagina 66 - Along the tingling desert of the sky, Beyond the circle of the conscious hills, Were laid in jasper-stone as clear as glass The first foundations of that new, near Day Which should be builded out of heaven to God...