Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination
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Simon Marsden (Author)
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Readers of Emily Bronte's poetry and of Wuthering Heights have seen in their author, variously, a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic, or a visionary "mystic of the moors". Rather than seeking to resolve this matter, Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination suggests that such conflicting readings are the product of tensions, conflicts and ambiguities within the texts themselves. Rejecting the idea that a single, coherent set of religious doctrines are to be found in Bronte's work, this book argues that Wuthering Heights and the poems dramatise individual experiences of faith in the context of a world in which such faith is always conflicted, always threatened. Bronte's work dramatises the experience of imaginative faith that is always contested by the presence of other voices, other worldviews. Her characters cling to visionary faith in the face of death and mortality, awaiting and anticipating a final vindication, an eschatological fulfilment that always lies in a future beyond the scope of the text.
About the Author
Simon Marsden is Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Liverpool, UK.
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- Contributor: Simon Marsden
- Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
- ISBN13: 9781441166302
- Number of Pages: 192
- Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
- Packaged Weight: 449
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Release Date: 2013-11-21
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Simon Marsden is Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Liverpool, UK.
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