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  1. The divine in the commonplace
    reverent natural history and the novel in Britain
    Author: King, Amy M.
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781108730181
    RVK Categories: HL 1031 ; HL 1101
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 117
    Subjects: Roman; Religion; Naturgeschichte <Fach>; Englisch; Natur <Motiv>
    Other subjects: English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; Nature in literature; Natural history in literature; Nature / Religious aspects; Literature and science / Great Britain / History / 19th century; English fiction; Literature and science; Great Britain; 1800-1899; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: xii, 297, Illustrationen, Karten
  2. The divine in the commonplace
    reverent natural history and the novel in Britain
    Author: King, Amy M.
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "Realism has long been associated with the secular, but in early nineteenth-century England a realist genre existed that was highly theological: popular natural histories informed by natural theology. The Divine in the Commonplace explores the... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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    GE 2021/2273
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    "Realism has long been associated with the secular, but in early nineteenth-century England a realist genre existed that was highly theological: popular natural histories informed by natural theology. The Divine in the Commonplace explores the 'reverent empiricism' of English natural history and how it conceives observation and description as a kind of devotion or act of reverence. Focusing on the texts of popular natural historians, especially seashore naturalists, Amy M. King puts these in conversation with English provincial realist novelists including Austen, Gaskell, Eliot and Trollope. She argues that English provincial novel has a 'reverent form' as a result of its connection to the practices and representational strategies of natural history writing in this period, which was both literary, empirical and reverent. This book will appeal to students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature, science historians and those interested in interdisciplinary connections between pre-Darwinian natural history, religion and literature"-- "This book will show how British natural history writing in this period blended scientific observation with rhetoric that in some instances was overtly religious and others more generally Romantic. The popular natural historian Rev. J.G. Wood urged his readers to look on the abhorrent in nature (rats, snakes, spiders, and toads) with "a more reverent eye," while G.H. Lewes in Seaside Studies (1856) asserted that "in direct contact with nature we not only learn reverence by having our own insignificance forced on us, but we learn more and more appreciate the Infinity on all sides." The orientation towards the natural world evidenced by the narrative might best be described as reverent: the natural world is clearly venerated as exalted and superior, such that heightened attention to it seems a natural function of that respect." --

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108730181
    RVK Categories: HL 1031 ; HL 1101
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 117
    Subjects: English literature; English fiction; Nature in literature; Natural history in literature; Nature; Literature and science
    Scope: xii, 297 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index