Elegant Jeremiahs : the sage from Carlyle to Mailer / George P. Landow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landow, George P., author.

Series:

Routledge revivals.

Routledge Revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mailer, Norman--Criticism and interpretation.

Mailer, Norman.

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881--Criticism and interpretation.

Carlyle, Thomas.

American prose literature--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

Wisdom in literature.

Prophecies in literature.

English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

English-speaking countries--Intellectual life.

English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Labelled "an elegant Jeremiah" by a journalist of his day, the urbane Victorian Matthew Arnold must have received the comparison with the Old Testament prophet uneasily. Yet George P. Landow asserts in this book that Arnold is a sage, a writer in the nonfiction prose form of secular prophecy, a genre richly influenced by the episodic structures and harshly critical attitudes toward society which characterize Old Testament prophetic literature.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Original Title""; ""Original Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Works Frequently Cited""; ""Introduction: The Genre of the Sage""; ""1 The Prophetic Pattern""; ""2 Symbolical Grotesques""; ""3 The Word Restored: Definition, Redefinition, and Satiric Redefinition""; ""4 The Sage as Master of Experience""; ""5 Ethos, or the Appeal to Credibility""; ""Afterword""; ""Index""

Notes:

First published in 1986 by Cornell University Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-72066-3

1-317-51963-9

9781315720661

OCLC:

911046974