The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers, First Edition - Hardcover

Miller, J. Hillis

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9780674211001: The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers, First Edition

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ISBN 10: 0674211006 ISBN 13: 9780674211001

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1963

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An analysis of the works of De Quincy, Browning, Emily Bronte, Arnold, and Hopkins reveals the nature of their theological views and the spiritual milieu of their day

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A landmark work of literary criticism by one of the foremost interpreters of nineteenth-century England, The Disappearance of God confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily Bronte, Matthew Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. J. Hillis Miller surveys the intellectual and material developments that conspired to cut man off from God -- among other factors the city, developments within Christianity, subjectivism, and the emergence of the modern historical sense -- and shows how each writer's body of work reflects a sustained response to the experience of God's disappearance and a unique effort to weave a new fabric of connection between God and creation.

About the Author:

J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books and articles on literature and literary theory, most recently "For Derrida".

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