By Hilary Fraser
This examine is a crucial contribution to the highbrow background of Victorian England which examines the religio-aesthetic theories of a few vital writers of the time. Dr Fraser starts off with a dialogue of the cultured dimensions of Tractarian theology after which proceeds to the orthodox certainties of Hopkins' idea of inscape, Ruskin's and Arnold's moralistic feedback of literature and the visible arts, and Pater's and Wilde's religion in a faith of paintings. the writer identifies major cultural and historic stipulations which made up our minds the interdependence of aesthetic and non secular sensibility within the interval. She argues that sure tensions within the considered Wordsworth and Coleridge - tensions among poetry and faith, uprising and response, individualism and authority - persisted to occur themselves through the Victorian age, and as society turned more and more democratic, faith in flip turned more and more own and secular.
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