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The Sun is God : painting, literature and mythology in the nineteenth century
Title
The Sun is God : painting, literature and mythology in the nineteenth century / edited by J.B. Bullen.
ISBN
0198128843 :
Published
Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Physical Description
viii, 230 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Romantic Manichaeism : Shelley's "On the devil, and devils" and Byron's mythological dramas / Marilyn Butler
J.W.M. Turner and solar myth / John Gage
Tennyson's "The lady of Shalott" / Isobel Armstrong
"The sun is God" : Ruskin's solar mythology / Dinah Birch
The sun of faith, the shadow of doubt : language and knowledge in Swinburne's myth of Apollo / Thaïs E. Morgan
"The death of the sun" : Victorian solar physics and solar myth / Gillian Beer
The gods in Wessex exile : Thomas Hardy and mythology / J.B. Bullen
Conclusion : myth and metamyth in Max Müller and Walter Pater / Steven Connor.
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