TY  - BOOK
AU  - Victor J. Lams
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Newman’s Visionary Georgic
T2  - A Reading of "Parochial Sermons</I>
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1101991
N2  - Building upon the evidence that John Henry Newman’s Parochial Sermons is a georgic (Lams, 2004), the current book defines and discusses the visionary georgic, a subset of the genre whose exemplars include Lucretius’ De rerum natura and Wordsworth’s The Prelude. Newman’s visionary georgic defends Christian revelation against the rationalistic subjectivism that tended to displace religious faith by Wordsworthian self-exploration, leading to the Victorian redefinition of literature as secular scripture. Subjects discussed include Newman’s relations with readers, his sermonic rhetoric, and his analysis of doctrines celebrated in the Church’s liturgy.
KW  - Newman, John Henry, Parochial and plain sermons, Kommentar, Literature, Rationalism, Dogma, Liturgy, Faith
LA  - English
ER  -