'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 1770-1880Cambridge University Press, 1980 M06 5 - 361 pages Dr Schaffer outlines the development of the mythological school of European Biblical criticism, especially its German origins and its reception in England, and studies the influence of this movement in the work of specific writers: Coleridge Hölderlin, Browning, and George Eliot. The 'higher criticism' treated sacred scripture as literature and as history, as the product of its time, and the highest expression of a developing group consciousness; it challenged current views on the authorship and dating of the Pentateuch and the Gospels, on inspiration, prophecy, and canonicity, and formulated a new apologetics closely linked with the growth of Romantic aesthetics. The importance of this study is that it shows that readings of specific literary texts can intersect with general movements of thought and action through the scrutiny of a clearly defined intellectual discipline, here the higher criticism, which developed as a particular expression of the larger trends in the history of the period. Dr Shaffer throws light on individual works of literature, the formation between England and Germany, and the bases of European Romanticism. |
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Page vii
... Hölderlin's ' Patmos ' ode and ' Kubla Khan ' : mythological doubling 145 5 Browning's St John : the casuistry of the higher criticism 6 Daniel Deronda and the conventions of fiction Appendix A : Eichhorn's outline of the poetic action ...
... Hölderlin's ' Patmos ' ode and ' Kubla Khan ' : mythological doubling 145 5 Browning's St John : the casuistry of the higher criticism 6 Daniel Deronda and the conventions of fiction Appendix A : Eichhorn's outline of the poetic action ...
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... Hölderlin's pietist milieu . Peter Dronke checked the accuracy of the translations from the Latin . The editors of Coleridge's Lectures 1795 On Politics and Religion , Peter Mann and Lewis Patton , and the English publishers of The ...
... Hölderlin's pietist milieu . Peter Dronke checked the accuracy of the translations from the Latin . The editors of Coleridge's Lectures 1795 On Politics and Religion , Peter Mann and Lewis Patton , and the English publishers of The ...
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... Hölderlin's ' Patmos ' , Browning's ' A Death in the Desert ' , George Eliot's Daniel Deronda , all of which are marked and shaped by the higher critical movement . Given that the history of ideas is inseparable from the history of ...
... Hölderlin's ' Patmos ' , Browning's ' A Death in the Desert ' , George Eliot's Daniel Deronda , all of which are marked and shaped by the higher critical movement . Given that the history of ideas is inseparable from the history of ...
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... Hölderlin ) , poetry often claimed to be ' pure poetry ' , poetry of extreme lyricism , emerging unwilled from a con- sciousness loosed from considerations of rational order , is brought into relation with Biblical criticism , a body of ...
... Hölderlin ) , poetry often claimed to be ' pure poetry ' , poetry of extreme lyricism , emerging unwilled from a con- sciousness loosed from considerations of rational order , is brought into relation with Biblical criticism , a body of ...
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... Hölderlin , rather than with Poe or with Lautréamont's ' Chants de Maldoror ' ( 1869 ) . It is not accidental that Hegel , employing the aesthetic categories of romanticism , was able to predict with such accuracy the whole course of ...
... Hölderlin , rather than with Poe or with Lautréamont's ' Chants de Maldoror ' ( 1869 ) . It is not accidental that Hegel , employing the aesthetic categories of romanticism , was able to predict with such accuracy the whole course of ...
Contents
The Fall of Jerusalem Coleridges unwritten epic | 17 |
The visionary character Revelation and the lyrical ballad | 62 |
The oriental idyll | 96 |
Holderlins Patmos ode and Kubla Khan mythological doubling | 145 |
Brownings St John the casuistry of the higher criticism | 191 |
Daniel Deronda and the conventions of fiction | 225 |
Eichhorns outline of the poetic action of the Book of Revelation | 292 |
A translation of Holderlins Patmos | 296 |
Patmos | 303 |
Notes | 309 |
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