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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Kent State Univ Pr
Publication date
June 8, 2004
Pages
240
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780873387972
ISBN-10
087338797X
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
Original list price
$34.00
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âIf ever this dreadful incubus of a book [Clarel] (I call it so because it has undermined all our happiness) gets off Hermanâs shoulders I do hope he may be in better mental healthâbut at present I have reason to feel the gravest concern & anxiety about itâto put it in mild phrase.ââLetter from Elizabeth Melville to Catherine Gansevoort, 1876 Clarel, an 18,000-line poem, is one of the longest examples of the âfaith-doubtâ genre that arose in Victorian times and one that has largely been ignored by Melville critics. Author William Potter argues that Melvilleâs poem Clarel is actually a study in comparative religionâone that explores faith in the post-Darwinian age. It was written at a crossroads in Western thought, when science, technology, nationalism, and imperialism were reshaping the world, and in the process ushered in the modern age. Potter proposes that the poem explains that science may have altered our perception of the world, but it cannot eradicate the basic human need for faith, which is timeless and therefore encompasses far more than the concerns of Western Christianity. In Melvilleâs Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds, Potter examines the poem within a historical context and by so doing attempts to resolve some of the issues critics have asserted the poem presents. He reviews the burgeoning field of comparative religion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes discussions of many of the theories and ideas of well-known figures of the time, such as Hegel, Hume, Müller, Emerson, Whitman, and Schopenhauer. Potter attempts to account for the huge abundance of non-Christian material that appears in the poem. He maintains that Melville answers the nineteenth-century questions of faith through the heterodoxical themes and ideas shared by all religions that lie beneath their very different doctrinesâredemptive suffering, the tempered heart, and the aversion to worldliness. Melvilleâs Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds will entice Melville scholars and is a much-anticipated critical study of the literature.
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9780873387972 | details & prices | 240 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $34.00
About: âIf ever this dreadful incubus of a book [Clarel] (I call it so because it has undermined all our happiness) gets off Hermanâs shoulders I do hope he may be in better mental healthâbut at present I have reason to feel the gravest concern & anxiety about itâto put it in mild phrase.
About: âIf ever this dreadful incubus of a book [Clarel] (I call it so because it has undermined all our happiness) gets off Hermanâs shoulders I do hope he may be in better mental healthâbut at present I have reason to feel the gravest concern & anxiety about itâto put it in mild phrase.
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