Conscience and the Pattern of Christian Perfection in Clarissa

PMLA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Dussinger
Keyword(s):  
Great Part ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Christian Perfection

Just as Defoe had maintained that the novel could surpass the pulpit in encouraging morality, so Richardson explicitly declared his intention of making Clarissa nothing less than an instrument of reviving the Christian religion:In this general depravity, when even the pulpit has lost great part of its weight, and the clergy are considered as a body of interested men, the author thought he should be able to answer it to his own heart, be the success what it would, if he threw in his mite towards introducing a reformation so much wanted. And he imagined, that in an age given up to diversion and entertainment, he could steal in, as may be said, and investigate the great doctrines of Christianity under the fashionable guise of an amusement; he should be most likely to serve his purpose.

“A GREAT PART TO PLAY”: GENDER, GENRE, AND LITERARY FAME IN GEORGE MOORE’S A MUMMER’S WIFE

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joellen Masters
Keyword(s):  
Great Part ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
George Moore ◽  
Literary Fame

An actor is one who repeats a portion of a story invented by another.— George Moore, “Mummer-Worship” (1891)THE COMPLEXITIES OF GEORGE MOORE’S CHARACTER, his reactions to Victorian life, and his experimentation with literary styles and genres make him a persistently marginal, albeit intriguing, character in literary studies. “[H]is best work,” Lloyd Fernando has observed, “rests to this day in an artistic as well as social limbo which resists complete definition” (10). A Mummer’s Wife (1885), his second novel, has been studied for Moore’s debt to French novelists, in particular Flaubert, or for the author’s reaction to the British circulating libraries’ power.1 In response to controversy over A Mummer’s Wife’s perceived crudeness, Moore claimed “I have a great part to play — I am fighting that Englishman [sic] may exercise a right which they formerly enjoyed, that of writing freely and sanely” (qtd. in Hone 114), even appointing himself “un ricochet de Zola en Angleterre.”2 Without exception then, author and scholars regard A Mummer’s Wife as a transitional work, the book that brought naturalism into the British tradition. The novel, however, suspended in that artistic and social limbo, has not come under scrutiny for additional and alternative readings.3

Literature and Hymns of the Religion of Liberty

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Viroli
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Alessandro Manzoni ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
The World

This chapter considers work of Alessandro Manzoni, who composed the poem and the novel that taught people to love liberty as a religious principle. In the ode “Marzo 1821” (March 1821), Manzoni directs the Italians toward a biblical God who listens to the invocation of the oppressed peoples. In Pentecoste, Manzoni writes of “living God” who operates in the world, supplying inspiration to a church that suffers, prays, and fights. In another work, Osservazioni sulla morale cattolica (Observations on Catholic morality), Manzoni affirms that the Christian religion requires courage to defend justice from the arrogance of the powerful.

Vampire Religion

2002 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Herbert
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
The Future ◽  
Moral Conception ◽  
William Robertson ◽  
European Civilization ◽  
The Way

THIS ESSAY HIGHLIGHTS AND SEEKS to trace the conflicted logic of the strong religious motivation exemplified in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). First it analyzes the tensions in Stoker's polemic against the primitive other of religion/ superstition, setting that polemic off against those of two late-Victorian anthropologists, William Robertson Smith and James Frazer. For these theorists, the basis of the superstitious mentality lies in the principle of taboo, according to which the divine and the unclean are one and the same and divinity manifests itself in contagious physical transmission. Dracula on the level of its overt homiletic rhetoric presents the campaign waged against vampirism by Van Helsing and his friends as an allegory of the suppression of wicked archaic superstition in the name of enlightened, spiritualized Christian religion. Yet the novel is itself an emanation of a deeply superstitious mentality: it powerfully endorses a moral conception (a familiar one to the Victorian middle classes) based on the perils of the contagious transmission of uncleanness, it portrays the disgustingly filthy Count as an object of religious veneration, and it ascribes frightening magical agency to religious instruments like crucifixes and communion wafers. Along the way it proclaims an ideology of the violent purification of society from the influence of enemies of religion, particularly unclean women and, implicitly, Jews - the ideology against which Frazer particularly warns as posing a lethal danger for the future of European civilization. The argument of Dracula about the relations of religion and superstition is irresolvably contradictory. At the same time, Stoker carries out an exposéé (or offers a case in point) of the perversely reflexive relations obtaining between vampirism and Christian religion in the age of the dominance of evangelicalism. He echoes earlier writers, notably Feuerbach, in diagnosing a strain of vampiric sadism at the heart of Christian piety. In its theme of erotically charged blood-drinking, Dracula evokes in particular the dominant motifs of the Wesleyan hymnal, and thus bears witness to the pathology that energizes Victorian spirituality.

scholarly journals Deconstrution Of Dichotomies In Toni Morrison’s Paradise

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 145-149
Author(s):  
Zeng Na
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Race And Religion

In her 1998 novel Paradise, Morrison plays with her reader’s desire in terms of gender, race and religion where binary oppositions can be easily constructed in the process of reading. However, as this paper seeks to prove, all these dichotomies are ostensible and false. It is not Morrison’s intention to construct a disparate paradise as opposed to all-black patriarchy Ruby with its rigid Christian religion. It is Morrison’s intention to invite the readers into the program of deconstructing the dangers of this utopian desire. As the present paper finds out what Morrison really endeavors to critique is dichotomy itself. In the progress of the novel, we can see that simple dichotomies of race, of gender, and of religion are undermined, and set interpretations are shattered.

scholarly journals A carnavalização de Bakhtin em Manual de tapeçaria de Nilma Gonçalves Lacerda / The carnivalization by Bakhtin in Manual de tapeçaria, by Nilma Gonçalves Lacerda

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Ana Cristina Steffen
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Great Part ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Brazilian Literature

Resumo: A escritora Nilma Gonçalves Lacerda (Rio de Janeiro, 1948) tem sua estreia na literatura em 1986, com o romance Manual de tapeçaria. A despeito dos mais de 30 anos de sua publicação, essa obra tem poucos estudos a ela dedicados. É considerado, no entanto, que Manual mereça novas e atuais leituras, tendo em vista, em primeiro lugar, o seu formato pouco tradicional, ocasionado em grande parte pelo emprego de variados gêneros textuais. A utilização de diferentes gêneros é um dos pontos destacados pelos postulados do teórico Mikhail Bakhtin; exemplo disso são os seus apontamentos na obra Problemas da poética de Dostoiévski (1963). Ao estudar a obra do escritor russo, Bakhtin apresenta os conceitos de literatura carnavalizada e carnavalização da literatura, que acabam por remeter ao surgimento do gênero romanesco. Logo, este trabalho tem como principal objetivo apresentar uma proposta de leitura do livro de Lacerda, visando identificar os aspectos que, segundo Bakhtin, pertencem ao gênero romanesco desde a sua origem. O diálogo entre a obra da romancista e do teórico, ademais, se mostra profícuo em demonstrar a atualidade de ambos.Palavras-chave: Manual de tapeçaria; Nilma Gonçalves Lacerda; Problemas da poética de Dostoiévski; Mikhail Bakhtin; literatura brasileira.Abstract: The writer Nilma Gonçalves Lacerda (Rio de Janeiro, 1948) has her debut in literature in 1986, with the novel Manual de tapeçaria. Despite the more than 30 years of its publication, this work has few studies dedicated to it. It is considered, nevertheless, that Manual deserves new and current readings, having in mind, first of all, its little traditional shape, occasioned in great part by the use of varied textual genres. The use of different genres is one of the points highlighted by the postulated of the theorist Mikhail Bakhtin; example of this are his appointments in the work Problems of Dostoiévski’s Poetics (1963). When studying the work of the Russian writer, Bakhtin presents the concepts of carnivalized literature and carnivalization of literature, which end by referring to the emergence of the Romanesque genre. Thus, this work has as main objective to present a proposal of reading of the Book of Lacerda, seeking to identify the aspects that, according to Bakhtin, belong to the Romanesque genre since its origin. The dialog between the novelist and the theorist, furthermore, shows itself fruitful in demonstrating the currency of both.Keywords: Manual de tapeçaria; Nilma Gonçalves Lacerda; Problems of Dostoiévski’s Poetics; Brazilian literature.

scholarly journals Understanding Knowledge and Behaviors Related to CoViD–19 Epidemic in Italian Undergraduate Students: The EPICO Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Gallè ◽  
Elita Anna Sabella ◽  
Giovanna Da Molin ◽  
Osvalda De Giglio ◽  
Giuseppina Caggiano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Italian Government ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Emergency Measures

Background: On February 2020, the novel coronavirus (2019−nCoV) epidemic began in Italy. In order to contain the spread of the virus, the Italian government adopted emergency measures nationwide, including closure of schools and universities, workplaces and subsequently lockdown. This survey was carried out among Italian undergraduates to explore their level of knowledge about the epidemic and the behaviors they adopted during the lockdown. Methods: An electronic questionnaire was administered to the students attending three Italian universities. Results: A good level of knowledge about the epidemic and its control was registered in the sample, mainly among students attending life sciences degree courses. The majority of the students did not modify their diet and smoking habits, while a great part of the sample reported a decrease in physical activity (PA). Conclusions: Students from life sciences courses showed a higher awareness regarding the infection and the control measures. The lockdown caused an important reduction of PA. Preventive interventions should transform the restrictive measures also as an opportunity to improve lifestyle.

The novel steroidal glycoside from the dried bulb of Allium Macrostemon Bunge inhibits platelet activation

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. S33-S33
Author(s):  
Wenchao Ou ◽  
Haifeng Chen ◽  
Yun Zhong ◽  
Benrong Liu ◽  
Keji Chen
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Activation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Steroidal Glycoside ◽  
Allium Macrostemon
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