Providence and Love
Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 26 November 1998
- ISBN 9780198184362
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 224x144x24 mm
- Weight 523 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 pp plates, 1 map 0
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Short description:
The studies in Providence and Love find a common theme in the loss of a sense of Providence in the nineteenth century and the attempt to see Romantic love as a substitute. John Beer uses previously unpublished manuscript material to explore a number of unresolved literary questions, such as the possibility of identifying the subject of Wordsworth's `Lucy' poems. This new material includes some recently discovered letters which cast new light on George Eliot's involvement with Cambridge.
MoreLong description:
These studies are connected by common underlying themes: the sense of Providence, the growing awareness of its loss in the nineteenth century and the pressure on the ideal of Romantic love as that came increasingly to be treated as a substitute. Other questions are raised. Were Wordsworth's `Lucy' poems simply Romantic fictions, or did they mask the memory of an actual youthful attachment? What was the story behind the secret message which F. W. H. Myers left with the Society for Psychical Research, hoping to transmit it after his death? And what was it about the young Cambridge men George Eliot met in 1872 that made them particularly attractive to her?
Investigation of these and other matters has led to close scrutiny of various manuscripts in British and American libraries, certain of which, including some letters of George Eliot recently discovered in Cambridge, are reproduced here for the first time.
John Beer's latest book is distinguished by its close attention to biographical detail and mastery of archival material, a good deal of it previously unpublished. It is this detail - along with characteristic critical acumen - that make this collection of essays valuable to scholars of both the Romantic and Victorian periods.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Abbreviations
Providence displaced
Wordsworth's Lucy: fiction or fact?
William Ellery Channing visits the Lake Poets
Myers's secret message
George Eliot and the Cambridge ethos
Ruskin's differences
Index
