دانلود کتاب Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater: Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on Editions Used
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Victorian ‘Crisis of Faith’ and the Secularisation Debate
Secularisation, Secularism, and Literary Criticism
Aestheticism and the Imanent Frame
Disenchantment/Re-enchantment and the Gods of Greece
Secularism, Sexuality, and Disinterestedness
‘This World’: Victorian Secularism and Christianity
Aestheticism and Victorian Doubt
Notes to the Introduction
1 Parleying with Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold: Swinburne and the Drama of Blasphemy
‘Hymn to Proserpine’ and ‘Cleon’
‘The Leper’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’
Notes to Chapter 1
2 ‘Though Hearts Reach Back and Memories Ache’: Melancholy, Religious Doubt, and Swinburne’s Strenuous Joy
The Carpe Diem Religion: Swinburne’s Minor Decadent Poems and Tennyson’s In Memoriam
‘The Darkness of These Beaches’: Tennyson’s In Memoriam, Swinburne’s ‘By the North Sea’, and the Atheistic Sublime
‘A Note of Rapture in the Tune of Life’: Arnold’s Tristram and Iseult, Tennyson’s ‘The Last Tournament’, and Swinburne’s Tristram of Lyonesse
Notes to Chapter 2
3 ‘A Secular, a Rebellious Spirit Often Betrays Itself ’: Pater’s Early Aestheticism
‘Without the Noise of Axe or Hammer’: Pater’s ‘Diaphaneitè’, Carlyle’s The French Revolution, and Secular Aesthetics
‘Neither for God nor for his Enemies’: Heresy and Disinterestedness in the Critical Essays of Arnold and Pater
Arnold, Colenso, and the Pious Fraud Tradition
‘Room for a Noble Antinomianism’: Arnold, Heresy, and Pater’s The Renaissance
‘Our Antagonist is Our Helper’: Pater, Arnold, and the Cult of Nuance
‘Homer Must be Made to Speak Agreeably to Moses’: Pater, Arnold, and the Ideal of Reconciliation
‘Experience Itself is the End’: John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Aestheticism in Pater’s ‘Coleridge’s Writings’ and the ‘Conclusion’ to The Renaissance
Notes to Chapter 3
4 ‘Inheriting Its Strange Web of Belief and Unbelief ’: George Eliot’s Romola, Pater’s Marius the Epicurean and the Aura of Agnosticism
‘What Face is Behind it?’: Pater’s Marius the Epicurean, Art, and Agnosticism
‘Only the Thorough Sceptic Can Be the Perfect Saint’: Altruism and Epicureanism in Marius the Epicurean and Romola
Notes to Chapter 4
Conclusion: Affirming the World — Pantheism, Secularism, Aestheticism
’All Instinct is Sacred’: Romantic Pantheism and the Logic of Art for Art’s Sake in Swinburne and Pater
’Magic’s Own Last Word’: Swinburne, Pater, and Romantic Pantheism at the Fin de Siècle
Notes to the Conclusion
Bibliography
Index