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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements \ A Note on Texts \ Introduction: The Unfinished Sentence \ 1. Enchantment \ 2. Christianity \ 3. Death and Eschatology \ 4. Faith, Doubt and Wuthering Heights \ (not) Conclusion \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index. |
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"Through close readings from her literary writings - from Wuthering Heights to her poems, essays and diaries - this book explores Emily Bronte's theological beliefs"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Readers of Emily Brontë's poetry and of Wuthering Heights have seen in their author, variously, a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic, or a visionary "mystic of the moors". Rather than seeking to resolve this matter, Emily Brontë and the Religious Imagination suggests that such conflicting readings are the product of tensions, conflicts and ambiguities within the texts themselves. Rejecting the idea that a single, coherent set of religious doctrines are to be found in Brontë's work, this book argues that Wuthering Heights and the poems dramatise individual experiences of faith in the context of a world in which such faith is always conflicted, always threatened. Brontë's work dramatises the experience of imaginative faith that is always contested by the presence of other voices, other worldviews. Her characters cling to visionary faith in the face of death and mortality, awaiting and anticipating a final vindication, an eschatological fulfilment that always lies in a future beyond the scope of the text"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Print version record. |
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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 -- Religion.
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Bront⁽e, Emily, 1818-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bront⁽e, Emily, 1818-1848 -- Religion.
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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. (OCoLC)fst00031383
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Religion in literature.
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Faith in literature.
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Belief and doubt in literature.
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Eschatology in literature.
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Ambiguity in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Literature & the Arts.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gothic & Romance.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Ambiguity in literature. (OCoLC)fst00806740
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Belief and doubt in literature. (OCoLC)fst00830132
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Eschatology in literature. (OCoLC)fst00915138
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Faith in literature. (OCoLC)fst00919968
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Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
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Religion in literature. (OCoLC)fst01732559
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Marsden, Simon, 1978- Emily Brontë and the religious imagination 9781441166302 (DLC) 2013033640 (OCoLC)861497047 |
| ISBN |
9781441153500 (electronic bk.) |
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1441153500 (electronic bk.) |
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1306725194 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306725194 (electronic bk.) |
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