The Victorian Self
Autobiography and Biblical Narrative
What becomes of typologically patterned autobiography in an age when faith in providential history is threatened? Heather Henderson here examines how three representative Victorian autobiographers, John Henry Newman, John Ruskin, and Edmund Gosse, adapted and even subverted typological narrative models in order to tell their stories of doubt and unconversion.The Victorian Self considers these writers against the background of the Christian typological tradition in which the Bible was read as a system of progressive revelation and figures such as Adam, Moses, and David were viewed as types or foreshadowings of Christ. Newman's Apologia, Ruski…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-4347-4
- EAN: 9781501743474
- Produktnummer: 31598215
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Plattform: PDF
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Heather Henderson
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