１９世紀におけるワーズワースと英国文学巡礼 Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century : Refashioning the Nation's Sacred Imaginary (New Directions in Religion and Literature)

Hanley, Keith

Bloomsbury Academic（2025/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350476004
• DDC分類 820.938209034

Full Description

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature.

It surveys the imaginative relocation of Jerusalem and Rome to real and present places, thereby creating the nation's sacred imaginary. Wordsworth is presented as central to founding a literary religious discourse on the sacred site of the Lake District. Also explored are the ways in which other Victorian writers such as Ruskin and Newman participated in that construction by their own literary pilgrimages.

Overall, this book revises assumptions about the decline of the religious imagination in nineteenth-century English literature and fundamentally reappraises the function of Romantic and Victorian representations of the sacred in forming the nation and empire.

Contents

Introduction
The Sacred Imaginary
Continuities
The Sacred Symbolic
Psychological Pilgrimage
This Book

Part I. The Return of the Sacred

1 Romantic Sacralization
The New Dawn
The Wordsworth Paradigm

2 Literary Pilgrimage
The English Lakes
New Jerusalems
Rome

Part II. Wordsworth's Grand Pilgrimage

3 The Interior Journey
A Silent Echo
The Boys of Winander
Redoublings
'Winander'

4 The Anglican Sublime
Sublimes
Brotherly Faculties
Crossings
The Sacred Nation

5 Excursions
Return Journeys
The Irish Tour
The Via Media

Part III. Sacred Spaces

Preamble

6 Three Psychogeographies
Wordsworth's 'Sacred Ground'
Ruskin 'On the Old Roads'
Newman's Itinerary of Assent

Select Bibliography
Index