God's Newer Will: Four Examples of Victorian Angst Resolved by Humanitarianism
Description:
One aspect of the current revaluation of Victorian thought and literature is the examination of the crisis of religious faith, in which the proponents of doubt and denial took different directions: they became openly cynical and pessimistic; they turned from religion to an aesthetic substitute; or they concluded that since mankind could look only to itself for aid, the primary duties of the individual were to find a tenable creed for himself and to try to alleviate the lot of others. The moveme…
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Date:
May 1975
Creator:
Speegle, Katherine Sloan
Partner:
UNT Libraries