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The Sacred and Secular Canon in Romanticism

Preserving the Sacred Truths

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. David Jasper

    1. University of Glasgow, UK

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Part of the book series: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories (ROPTCH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Can These Dry Bones Live?

    • David Jasper
    Pages 1-10

  3. ‘Mediator between Old and New World’

    • David Jasper
    Pages 11-25

  4. Living Powers: Sacred and Secular Language

    • David Jasper
    Pages 26-40

  5. Hölderlin and Holy Scripture

    • David Jasper
    Pages 41-55

  6. Light and Darkness: J. M. W. Turner and the Bible

    • David Jasper
    Pages 56-71

  7. Weltliteratur and the Biblical Critics

    • David Jasper
    Pages 72-87

  8. Matthew Arnold: Between Two Worlds

    • David Jasper
    Pages 88-99

  9. The Death and Rebirth of Religious Language

    • David Jasper
    Pages 100-115

  10. Conclusion: Into the Twentieth Century

    • David Jasper
    Pages 116-130

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 131-158
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About this book

This book is an interdisciplinary study of Romanticism which focuses on the reception of the Biblical canon in poetry, art and theory. The Bible is acknowledged as the heart of European culture, but as its status as the sacred text of Judaism and Christianity becomes questionable, it remains at the turning-point between sacred and secular art in the modern world. The insights of Romanticism are crucial for our understanding of postmodernism as a fundamentally religious movement which acknowledges both the death and rebirth of religious language.

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Jasper draws an astute portrait of the evolving relationship between Scripture and literature. . .[His] argument merits thoughtful consideration. Anglican Theological Review

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  • University of Glasgow, UK

    David Jasper

About the author

DAVID JASPER is a Reader in Literature and Theology in the University of Glasgow. He holds degrees in English Literature and Theology from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Durham. The founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts, he is Editor of the Macmillan series Studies in Religion and Literature. The author of five earlier books, he has lectured widely in Europe, North America, South Africa and Australia. He is at present Vice Dean of Divinity at the University of Glasgow.

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