2007, ISBN: 9780826443489

Victorian Parables - Presents a critical study of the reinscription of biblical parables in Victorian realist fiction. The author shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Olip… More...

Victorian Parables - Presents a critical study of the reinscription of biblical parables in Victorian realist fiction. The author shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral complacency. Susan E. Colon is Associate Professor of Literature at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, USA. She is the author of The Professional Ideal in the Victorian Novel: The Works of Trollope, Disraeli, George Eliot, and Gaskell (Palgrave, 2007). 1. Parables and Literature- 2. Parables and Nineteenth-Century Literary History- 3. Realism and Parable in Charlotte Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe- 4. Prodigals and Pharisees: Waywardness in Oliphant's The Perpetual Curate- 5. The Agent of a Superior: Stewardship Parables in Our Mutual Friend- References- Index. 'Victorian Parables applies theories of biblical hermeneutics to historically contextualized readings of Victorian novels in a clear, fresh and provocative way which overcomes conventional critical dichotomies opposing religious belief and novelistic realism. Colon's book represents a significant contribution to the post-secular interpretation of Victorian culture.'--Sanford Lakoff Livre - Beau livre, Bloomsbury Academic<

ISBN: 9780826443489

The familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the prodigal son, and&#160;Lazarus and&#160;the rich man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian au… More...

The familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the prodigal son, and&#160;Lazarus and&#160;the rich man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and plots of biblical parables for a variety of authoritative, interpretive, and subversive effects. However, scholars of parables in literature have often overlooked the 19th-century novel, assuming that realism bears no relation to the subversive, iconoclastic genre of parable. In this book Susan E. Col&#242;n shows that&#160;authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral ideas. Against the common assumption that the genres of realism and parable are polar opposites, this study explores how Victorian novels, despite their length, verisimilitude, and multi-plot complexity, can become parables in ways that imitate, interpret, and challenge their biblical sources. &gt; Susan E. Colon, Books, Fiction and Literature, Victorian Parables Books>Fiction and Literature <

ISBN: 9780826443489

Susan E. Colon,Hardcover, Edition: 1,Series: New Directions In Religion & Literature Series, English-language edition,Pub by Bloomsbury Academic Books Books ~~ Literary Criticism~~ Genera… More...

Susan E. Colon,Hardcover, Edition: 1,Series: New Directions In Religion & Literature Series, English-language edition,Pub by Bloomsbury Academic Books Books ~~ Literary Criticism~~ General Victorian-Parables~~Susan-E-Colon Bloomsbury Academic<

2012, ISBN: 9780826443489

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