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Byron's religions / edited by Peter Cochran.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Religion--Congresses.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (401 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Byron's Religions is the most comprehensive study yet of the poet's deep, diverse and eclectic attitude to religion. The articles, by several well-known and distinguished scholars, cover many of his poems and plays, taking in Anglicanism, Catholicism, Blasphemy, Calvinism, Gnosticism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism. The tentative conclusion is that Byron was never the atheist which the cliché has him to be, but a man whose profound need for a faith clashed always Other an equally profound scepticis...
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Christianity
- pt. 2. Islam
- pt. 3. Other religions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-373) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-14284-8
- 9786613142849
- 1-4438-3025-9
- OCLC:
- 821179851
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