Sebastian Lecourt (University of Houston Assistant Professor)

Gebundenes Buch

Cultivating Belief

Beschreibung

This book explores how a group of Victorian literary writers - including George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold - became interested in the emerging anthropology of religion, which sought to explain religion not in terms of doctrines or beliefs but as a function of race or ethnicity.

Autor

Sebastian Lecourt received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston. His work focuses on Victorian literature and questions of secularization, colonialism, and world literature. His essays have also appeared in PMLA, Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Literature Compass , and he has held fellowships at the Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University, and Universität Konstanz. He is working on a new book project entitled The Genres of Comparative Religion, 1783-1947.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780198812494
• ISBN-10: 0198812493
• Artikelnr.: 52905299