‘Heartsease I found’: Rossetti, Analogy, and the Individual Believing Subject
Christina Rossetti has emerged in recent years as a major religious writer. Yet a question remains as to how fully she engaged with the fundamental causes of the Victorian ‘crisis of faith’. This article examines the uses in her poetry of the doctrine of analogy, suggesting that Rossetti’s appropria...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Literature and theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 29-44 |
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| Summary: | Christina Rossetti has emerged in recent years as a major religious writer. Yet a question remains as to how fully she engaged with the fundamental causes of the Victorian ‘crisis of faith’. This article examines the uses in her poetry of the doctrine of analogy, suggesting that Rossetti’s appropriation of this quintessentially patristic and Tractarian mode of discourse is characterised by a radical focus on the role of the individual believing subject in apprehending types of the divine in the natural world. Her poetry thus parallels the ‘turn to the subject’ that is one of the defining strategies of 19th-century liberal theology in its response to the challenges of post-Enlightenment rationalism. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs055 |