'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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... romantic literature adopted and is based upon it . German thought in this period was seminal for all the romantic movements of Europe ; René Wellek has shown the effect of this in literary history , and his views have been extensively ...
... romantic literature adopted and is based upon it . German thought in this period was seminal for all the romantic movements of Europe ; René Wellek has shown the effect of this in literary history , and his views have been extensively ...
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... romantic irony . The literary per- spective opens for us aspects of the higher criticism that have been largely lost sight of , by accident and by design , in the pretensions of the nineteenth century to make of it a ' positive ...
... romantic irony . The literary per- spective opens for us aspects of the higher criticism that have been largely lost sight of , by accident and by design , in the pretensions of the nineteenth century to make of it a ' positive ...
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... romantic ' , that barbarous in- vention of literary historians . The collocation of Voltaire , and neo- platonism , and Unitarianism , we shall see , makes sense in its true context . The publication of Coleridge's early lectures and ...
... romantic ' , that barbarous in- vention of literary historians . The collocation of Voltaire , and neo- platonism , and Unitarianism , we shall see , makes sense in its true context . The publication of Coleridge's early lectures and ...
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... romantic period expresses my conviction that the radical break with the past came at that time , and not with the advent of ' modernism ' , however defined - in short , with ' Kubla Khan ' and the lyric of Hölderlin , rather than with ...
... romantic period expresses my conviction that the radical break with the past came at that time , and not with the advent of ' modernism ' , however defined - in short , with ' Kubla Khan ' and the lyric of Hölderlin , rather than with ...
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... romantic Hellenism ' . The Hellenism associated with Bible studies was a very much wider pheno- menon than the interest in Greek classical antiquity . Its concern was with the Hellenistic period , the immediate environment of early ...
... romantic Hellenism ' . The Hellenism associated with Bible studies was a very much wider pheno- menon than the interest in Greek classical antiquity . Its concern was with the Hellenistic period , the immediate environment of early ...
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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