Our King Back, Oh, Upon English Souls
Swinburne, Hopkins, and the Politics of Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12445131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Renée V Overholser (corresponding author), Renée Overholser |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 81-107 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and the Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1079-9265 • E-ISSN: 1568-5292 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156852901753498133 |
| OpenAlex | W2069444648 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Recent critics have emphasized the centrality of the discourse of religion and politics in the Victorian era and, following Linda Colley’s Britons, the importance of the Protestant providential narrative—that God directs his nation, and protects it from its enemies—in forming England’s national identity.1 In linking theology with politics, nineteenth-century English Protestants saw evidence of God’s continuing present-day support for the Protestant constitution, which earlier had been responsible for the historic defeats of Roman Catholicism—the rout of the Spanish Armada, the defusing of the Gunpowder Plot—and which now contributed to the period’s well-documented anti-Catholic feelings. This essay focuses on the providential poetry of Algernon Swinburne and Gerard Manley Hopkins within the context of Victorian England’s religious politics
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · English Reformation · Gunpowder · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · National identity · Plot (graphics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |