Approaching Apocalypse: Unveiling Revelation in Victorian WritingBucknell University Press, 2007 - 228 páginas A great deal of Victorian literature recycles themes, images, and language from apocalyptic literature, in what might be described as an affinity with the genre. With this affinity in mind, Approaching Apocalypse examines certain structuring oppositions that shape apocalyptic literature, and sets out to decode their significance for Victorian writing. They are: human/inhuman, desert/city, veiled/revealed, time/eternal, and this world/other world. The five main chapters of the book each deal with one of these opposites, reading a wide range of Victorian texts, including novels, poems, plays, sermons, and other less easily categorized texts. At the heart of each chapter is an extended reading of one or two texts selected for their particularly telling insights into the relationship between Victorian writing and the Book of Revelation. |
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... opening remarks characterize the opacity , obscurity , and sealed condition of the Apocalypse as a check upon the hubris of an age obsessed with progress , ensuring that whatever the ambitions or pretensions of mankind , the quest for ...
... opening remarks characterize the opacity , obscurity , and sealed condition of the Apocalypse as a check upon the hubris of an age obsessed with progress , ensuring that whatever the ambitions or pretensions of mankind , the quest for ...
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... opening up a new perspective on the situation . It attempts to situate the experience of the disillu- sioned remnant of Israel in the context of an overview of human history . The difficulties they face are then seen as part of a larger ...
... opening up a new perspective on the situation . It attempts to situate the experience of the disillu- sioned remnant of Israel in the context of an overview of human history . The difficulties they face are then seen as part of a larger ...
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... opening visionary possibilities of reform , will become a force of repression , holding Dorothea back and eating away at her zeal for social improvement . Clough's protag- onist uses the vision ironically to deny the realization of ...
... opening visionary possibilities of reform , will become a force of repression , holding Dorothea back and eating away at her zeal for social improvement . Clough's protag- onist uses the vision ironically to deny the realization of ...
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... opening up the theme . This does not mean that the theme itself is of little moment ; it is my hope that the very range and scope of the con- textualization suggests that the image of the desert in the city is of sufficient cultural ...
... opening up the theme . This does not mean that the theme itself is of little moment ; it is my hope that the very range and scope of the con- textualization suggests that the image of the desert in the city is of sufficient cultural ...
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... opening of his early essay " On Truth and Falsity in Their Ultramoral Sense " ( 1873 ) has a strongly Darwin- ian ( and almost apocalyptic ) tone : In some remote corner of the universe , effused into innumerable solar - systems , there ...
... opening of his early essay " On Truth and Falsity in Their Ultramoral Sense " ( 1873 ) has a strongly Darwin- ian ( and almost apocalyptic ) tone : In some remote corner of the universe , effused into innumerable solar - systems , there ...
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Página 150 - And he opened the bottomless pit ; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Página 35 - And I stood upon the sand of the sea; and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Página 35 - And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion : and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Página 48 - As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications.
Página 68 - London. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
Página 35 - And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne and round about the throne were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Página 35 - And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb, as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Página 29 - And, moved thro' life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge; under whose command Is Earth and Earth's, and in their hand Is Nature like an open book; No longer half-akin to brute, For all we thought and loved and did, And hoped, and suffer'd, is but seed Of what in them is flower and fruit; 822 Whereof the man, that with me trod This planet, was a noble type.
Página 35 - And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Página 66 - Along the tingling desert of the sky, Beyond the circle of the conscious hills, Were laid in jasper-stone as clear as glass The first foundations of that new, near Day Which should be builded out of heaven to God...