Charles LaPorte
Biographic Data
| ID | 6625029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles LaPorte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | LaPorte |
| SIGNATURE | LAPORTE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Victorian Literature, Religion, and Secularization
Recent debates about secularization are transforming Victorian literary studies. Earlier consensus about how to understand the relationship between religion, modernity, and secularization has given way to a variety of new models that no longer take for granted religion’s modern decline. Historical and literary studies now often emphasize the robust state of nineteenth‐century religion in particular, and this emphasis should alter our view of that…
On the Bible and Victorian Religious Uncertainty
Book Review| September 01 2012 On the Bible and Victorian Religious Uncertainty: Christopher Lane's The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty and Timothy Larsen's A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians Lane, Christopher, The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of our Religious Uncertainty (Yale University Press, 2011).Larsen, Timothy, A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians (Oxford University Press, 2011)…
Atheist Prophecy
Scholars of nineteenth-century women's poetry often recount that the sentimental piety – indeed, the quasi-religiosity – of the Victorian “poetess” disappears from women's poetry in the mordant irony of the fin de siècle. Virginia Blain, for instance, has recently identified Mathilde Blind and Constance Naden as representatives of “the new breed of post-Darwinian atheists” that comes to replace an earlier, implicitly Christian feminine tradition …
George Eliot, the Poetess as Prophet
G EORGE ELIOT FELT A WELL-KNOWN ambivalence toward “feminine” writing. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” (1856) mocks the “composite order of feminine fatuity” that characterizes her contemporaries' fiction ( Writings 296). “Woman in France: Madame de Sablé” (1854) maintains that “[w]ith a few remarkable exceptions, our own feminine literature is made up of books which could have been better written by men” ( Writings 37). And “The Natural History…
Atheist Prophecy
Scholars of nineteenth-century women's poetry often recount that the sentimental piety – indeed, the quasi-religiosity – of the Victorian “poetess” disappears from women's poetry in the mordant irony of the fin de siècle. Virginia Blain, for instance, has recently identified Mathilde Blind and Constance Naden as representatives of “the new breed of post-Darwinian atheists” that comes to replace an earlier, implicitly Christian feminine tradition …
George Eliot, the Poetess as Prophet
G EORGE ELIOT FELT A WELL-KNOWN ambivalence toward “feminine” writing. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” (1856) mocks the “composite order of feminine fatuity” that characterizes her contemporaries' fiction ( Writings 296). “Woman in France: Madame de Sablé” (1854) maintains that “[w]ith a few remarkable exceptions, our own feminine literature is made up of books which could have been better written by men” ( Writings 37). And “The Natural History…
George Eliot, the Poetess as Prophet
G EORGE ELIOT FELT A WELL-KNOWN ambivalence toward “feminine” writing. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” (1856) mocks the “composite order of feminine fatuity” that characterizes her contemporaries' fiction ( Writings 296). “Woman in France: Madame de Sablé” (1854) maintains that “[w]ith a few remarkable exceptions, our own feminine literature is made up of books which could have been better written by men” ( Writings 37). And “The Natural History…
Atheist Prophecy
Scholars of nineteenth-century women's poetry often recount that the sentimental piety – indeed, the quasi-religiosity – of the Victorian “poetess” disappears from women's poetry in the mordant irony of the fin de siècle. Virginia Blain, for instance, has recently identified Mathilde Blind and Constance Naden as representatives of “the new breed of post-Darwinian atheists” that comes to replace an earlier, implicitly Christian feminine tradition …
On the Bible and Victorian Religious Uncertainty
Book Review| September 01 2012 On the Bible and Victorian Religious Uncertainty: Christopher Lane's The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty and Timothy Larsen's A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians Lane, Christopher, The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of our Religious Uncertainty (Yale University Press, 2011).Larsen, Timothy, A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians (Oxford University Press, 2011)…
Victorian Literature, Religion, and Secularization
Recent debates about secularization are transforming Victorian literary studies. Earlier consensus about how to understand the relationship between religion, modernity, and secularization has given way to a variety of new models that no longer take for granted religion’s modern decline. Historical and literary studies now often emphasize the robust state of nineteenth‐century religion in particular, and this emphasis should alter our view of that…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Modernist Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Poetry (2 works)