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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2024
      November 2024
      ISBN:
      9781009435932
      9781009435956
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009435932
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 262 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, History of Religion, English Literature 1830-1900, Religion
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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    Subjects:
    Literature, History of Religion, English Literature 1830-1900, Religion
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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    Simultaneously spiritual and material, liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms – bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of churches and temples. Nineteenth-century writers were fascinated with liturgy. In this book Joseph McQueen shows the ways in which Romantic and Victorian writers, from Wordsworth to Wilde, regardless of their own personal beliefs, made use of the power of the liturgy in their work. In modernity, according to recent theories of secularization, the natural opposes the supernatural, reason (or science) opposes faith, and the material opposes the spiritual. Yet many nineteenth-century writers are manifestly fascinated by how liturgy and ritual undo these typically modern divides in order to reinvest material reality with spiritual meaning, reimagine the human as malleable rather than mechanical, and enflesh otherwise abstract ethical commitments. McQueen upends the dominant view of this period as one of scepticism and secularisation, paving the way for surprising new avenues of research.

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