The Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Aspects of John Inglesant
Author : Meijer Polak
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Page : 210 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : Meijer Polak
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Page : 210 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 1933
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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : Charles W. Spurgeon
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1581121830
When J. Henry Shorthouse (1834-1903) published John Inglesant in 1881, he contributed a unique synthesis of Anglo-Catholic sensibilities to the enduring legacy of the Oxford Movement. Although his "philosophical romance" has been acclaimed "the greatest Anglo-Catholic novel in English literature" and "the one English novel that speaks immediately to human intuition without regard to the reader's own faith or philosophy", his most enduring contributions are the "religion of John Inglesant", an Anglo-Catholic synthesis of obedience and freedom, faith and reason, and the sacramental vision of "the myth of Little Gidding". Afflicted with a lifelong stammer, "the author of John Inglesant" proved himself a master of cadenced rhythms and "enspiritualised" prose in quest of "the great musical novel". Delineating parallels between sixteenth-century and Victorian England, Shorthouse integrated Quietism with Platonism into a religious aesthetic, a sacramental vision of "the Divine Principle of the Platonic Christ". Studied chronologically, Shorthouse's transition from Quaker to "Broad Church Sacramentalist" provides informing comparison with T. S. Eliot's conversion from Unitarian to Anglo-Catholic, as his myth of Little Gidding informs the historical imagination of Eliot's Christian poetry and dramas. The religious and developmental nature of the work of both artists affords analogies with C. G. Jung's psychology of Individuation.
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Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
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Author : John Henry Shorthouse
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,71 MB
Release : 2024-04
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ISBN : 9789362768797
Author : John Henry Shorthouse
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2024-04
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ISBN : 9789362767011
Author : A Baugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136892990
First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).
Author : Ernest Albert Baker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1935
Category : English fiction
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Author : Joseph Henry Shorthouse
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2024-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385319978
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Joseph Henry Shorthouse
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 1884
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"Shorthouse (1834-1903) was born and died in Birmingham, the eldest son of Joseph Shorthouse and his wife, Mary Ann, both of whom belonged to the Society of Friends. Joseph had inherited a chemical works and at sixteen, his son went into this family business. He had, however, been much attracted to literary work, reading widely, and writing for the Friends' Essay Society. An epileptic attack in 1862 left him invalided, and with time and resources from his family business, he started to write a Philosophical Romance, in 1866, much influenced by Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites and his conception of seventeenth-century Anglicanism. He worked at this novel for ten years, finishing in 1876 but failing to generate any commercial enthusiasm. It lay dormant until 1880 and was published privately in Birmingham in that year. A copy was shown to Mrs. Humphry Ward who, considerably impressed, passed it to the publisher Alexander Macmillan. He was immediately keen to publish and it came out in a trade 2-decker in 1881, to a clamorous reception. It struck all the right notes for the times - romantic, sermonising, philosophical and devoid of humour, it delighted a wide audience including Thomas Henry Huxley and Philip Gosse, Cardinal Manning and Gladstone and Charlotte Yonge. The book acquired a cult status, the first novel of a mystic drawn from the Birmingham business-industrial class."--Abebooks website.