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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. I, No. 1 (May 2010)

Spirituality in Victorian Poetry

ISSN: 0976-1861

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CONTENTS

Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. I, No. 1 (May 2010)
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SPIRITUALITY IN VICTORIAN POETRY

ISSN  0976-1861May 2010Vol. I, No 1

CONTENTS

Editorial

From Seminar to Journal: The Letter and the Spirit

Bishal Thapa & Francis Gomes

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The Ebb and Flow of Spirituality in Victorian Poetry: A Contextual Study

Irshad Gulam Ahmed

1

The Scientific and Religious Temper of the Victorian Age: A General Survey

Christin Gobel

12

Re-deeming the Female: Spirituality, Sexuality and Sub-version in 'The Lady of Shallott and 'Goblin Market'

Amit Bhattacharya

21

The Spiritual Tenor of the Times of Tennyson

Rosy Chamling

44

Encountering Spirituality at Death's Door: The Poetry of Tennyson

Garima Rai

49

Theological significance of the Poetry of GM Hopkins

Smriti Singh

55

Spirituality in Mathew Arnold's Poetry

Sisodhara Syangbo

60

Victorian Poetry: A Way to Spirituality

Punyata Subba

66

Philosophical Foundations of Spirituality in Poetry

George Thadathil

70

Book Reviews

Mark Knight and Emma Mason: Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (2006)

By Peter Lepcha

79

Timothy Larsen: Crisis of Doubt - Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England (2006)

By Peter Lepcha

81

Editorial

Editorial

From Seminar to Journal: The Letter and the Spirit

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.v-vi

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Editorial

Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. I, No. 1 (May 2010)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.v-vi | Page No: v-vi | Section: Editorial
Guest Editorial: From Seminar to Journal: The Letter and the Spirit | v

Editorial:

From Seminar to Journal: The Letter and the Spirit

Bishal Thapa is a Lecturer at Salesian College Sonada, in the Department of English.
Francis Gomes is the Head, Department of English, Salesian College and Editor of Yuva Darpan the little Magazine.

The term ‘Victorian Age’ is perhaps one among the more widely misunderstood of notions when applied specially to English Literature. The intricacy in the discourse is derived from the fact that the experts have forcefully yoked diverse views and ideas about this age into this single term. The name ‘Victorian’ is derived from Queen Victoria who ascended the English throne in 1837 and ruled till her death in 1901. However, the Victorian Age started much earlier in 1832 when the Great Reform Bill was passed in the English Parliament. This great age was characterized by constant and rapid changes in economic conditions, social customs and intellectual atmosphere. Therefore, it would be wrong to presume that these seventy years had any fixed likeness one to another just because more than sixty of these years were under the rule of Queen Victoria. The more prominent similarities seen in these seventy individual years of the Victorian era are however, identifiable in two governing factors: first, there was no great war and no fear of catastrophe from outside; second, the whole period was marked by a keen interest in religious questions that deeply influenced the seriousness of thought, and self-disciplined character, an outcome of the puritan ethos.

Articles

The Ebb and Flow of Spirituality in Victorian Poetry: A Contextual Study

Irshad Gulam Ahmed

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.1-11

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The Ebb and Flow of Spirituality in Victorian Poetry: A Contextual Study

Irshad Gulam Ahmed has authored one book, Kamala Das: The Poetic Pilgrimage; his translations of Nepali Literature have been published in Modern Indian Literature: An Anthology published by Sahitya Academi. He is presently the Reader and Head, Post-Graduate Department of English, Darjeeling Government College, Darjeeling.

Abstract

Ahmed in his overview of the Victorian Era in relation to religion and spirituality interfacing with poetic imagination attempts a coherent synthesis of the major streams in and through the representative poets chosen for consideration: Arnold, Tennyson and Browning.

Keywords: Supernaturalism, Secular Spirituality, Spiritual Crisis, Natural Piety.

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The Scientific and Religious Temper of the Victorian Age: A General Survey

Christin Gobel

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.12-20

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The Scientific and Religious Temper of the Victorian Age: A General Survey  | 12

The Scientific and Religious Temper of the Victorian Age: A General Survey

Merlyn George is a senior Lecturer at North Bengal St. Xavier’s College and was formerly in the Department of English at Salesian College Sonada. She is the author of Vibrations of the Heart: John Henry Newman The Dynamics of Conversion, Salesian College Publications (2004).

Abstract

In the general survey of the Victorian Age offered by Merlyn she identifies the causes for the tension at the emergence of science in the wake of renaissance and industrialism. The scientific temper in clash with the prevailing religious sensibility calling for the adaptation of the latter is what is found in most of the creative poets of the age is argued with special reference to Newman as a key intellectual representative of the era.

Keywords: Science, Religion, Belief, Progress, Intuition.

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Re-deeming the Female: Spirituality, Sexuality and Sub-version in 'The Lady of Shallott and 'Goblin Market'

Amit Bhattacharya

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.21-43

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ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.21-43 | Page No: 21-43 | Section: Article
Re-deeming the Female: Spirituality, Sexuality and Sub-version in 'The Lady of Shallott and 'Goblin Market' | 21

Re-deeming the Female: Spirituality, Sexuality and Sub-version in 'The Lady of Shallott and 'Goblin Market'

Amit Bhattacharya teaches English at the University of Gour Banga. He has done his Ph.D on the poetry of Kamala Das. Bhattacharya has attended a number of National and International seminars and has presented research papers on various topics. He has also contributed research papers to journals like Pratyay: The Journal of the SCERT, Symposium: A Forum for Literary Dialogue, The Critical Practice, North Bengal Critical Review, Pallet etc.. His articles are appearing in critical anthologies on Indo-Anglian Literature and New Literatures in English including Indo-Anglian Literature: Past to Present (Ketaki Datta, Ed. Kolkata: Creative Books, 2008), and Indian Women Poets (Ed. Anisur Rahman, New Delhi: Creative Books, 2009). The areas of his research interest include Postcolonial Literature, American Literature, British Poetry, Translation Studies, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.

Abstract

Bhattacharya in his scholarly argumentation establishes impeccably that “both ‘The Lady of Shalott’ and ‘Goblin Market’ evince a distinct thematic progression whereby issues such as the Janus-faced nature of Victorian spirituality, the limits and permits of Victorian sexuality, and women’s attempts at creating a space for themselves, negotiating the tugs and pulls of those discourses” can be ‘tackled with insight and candour’ and that both are also ‘precluded by patriarchy from participating in the active life, of which sexuality happens to be a pivotal part’.

Keywords: Sexuality, Patriarchy, Spirituality, Religion.

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The Spiritual Tenor of the Times of Tennyson

Rosy Chamling

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.44-48

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The Spiritual Tenor of the Times of Tennyson | 44

The Spiritual Tenor of the Times of Tennyson

Rosy Chamling is a Lecturer at Darjeeling Government College, in the Department of English.

Abstract

Rosy attempts a quick encapsulation of the Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson as having sustained the spiritual tenor of the era despite its crisis in faith by emphasizing the closeness to nature and its resourcefulness as providing for the optimism that one sees in his poems.

Keywords: Nature, Faith, Science, Religion.

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Encountering Spirituality at Death's Door: The Poetry of Tennyson

Garima Rai

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.49-54

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ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.49-54 | Page No: 49-54 | Section: Article
Encountering Spirituality at Death's Door: The Poetry of Tennyson | 49

Encountering Spirituality at Death's Door: The Poetry of Tennyson

Garima Rai is an M. Phil. student of the University of Delhi, Department of English.

Abstract

Garima perceptively enters into the spirit of In Memoriam to unveil the spiritual outlook of Tennyson bred on Christian eschatology and yet offering a universal reflection on the poignancy of death.

Keywords: Theology, Faith, Christ, Immortality.

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Theological significance of the Poetry of GM Hopkins

Smriti Singh

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.55-59

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ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.55-59 | Page No: 55-59 | Section: Article
Theological significance of the Poetry of GM Hopkins | 55

Theological significance of the Poetry of GM Hopkins

Smriti Singh is a Lecturer at Darjeeling Government College, in the Department of English.

Abstract

In this short assessment of GM Hopkins attempted by Smriti based especially on his first prominent piece there is a glimpse into the ‘God-driven’ life of the poet ever on the search for new ways to communicate the divine presence in the world.

Keywords: Ambivalence, Christ, Faith.

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Spirituality in Mathew Arnold's Poetry

Sisodhara Syangbo

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.60-65

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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. I, No. 1 (May 2010)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.60-65 | Page No: 60-65 | Section: Article
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Spirituality in Mathew Arnold's Poetry

Sisodhara Syangbo is a Lecturer at Darjeeling Government College, in the Department of English.

Abstract

Sisodhara takes a keen look at the character and personality of Arnold and how it features in his poetry with special reference to Scholar Gypsy, Thyrsis and Dover Beach in order to highlight the way he offers, to his contemporaries, out of the confusions of the times they lived through especially by having recourse to poetry as containing a bulwark of secular spirituality.

Keywords: Belief, Nature, Religion, Spirituality.

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Victorian Poetry: A Way to Spirituality

Punyata Subba

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.66-69

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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. I, No. 1 (May 2010)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.66-69 | Page No: 66-69 | Section: Article
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Victorian Poetry: A Way to Spirituality

Punyata Subba is a Lecturer at Salesian College Sonada, in the Department of English.

Abstract

This piece contains an attempt to make an overall assessment of the religion/ spirituality-literature nexus with the help of glimpses into the poetry of Tennyson and Browning in particular as representatives of the Victorian era.

Keywords: Religion, Literature, Tennyson, Browning.

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Philosophical Foundations of Spirituality in Poetry

George Thadathil

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.70-78

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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. I, No. 1 (May 2010)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.70-78 | Page No: 70-78 | Section: Article
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Philosophical Foundations of Spirituality in Poetry

George Thadathil is presently the Principal of Salesian College Sonada and Siliguri Campus, affiliated to the University of North Bengal. He completed his doctorate from the School of Religion and Philosophy, University of Madras & Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, making a study on Sri Narayana Guru Movement in Kerala. He has co-edited several books and written many scholarly articles besides Vision From the Margin: Study of Sri Narayana Guru Movement, Salesian College & Asian Trading Corporation Publications (2007).

Abstract

Thadathil centers the short piece on the ‘self’ and its ‘wholeness’ as the foundations on which a spirituality can be built and that such foundational experiences and search for the same underlie poetic expressions in any age, especially of the Victorian poetry.

Keywords: Perfection, Wholeness, Morality, Transcendence.

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Book Reviews

Mark Knight and Emma Mason, Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature an Introduction

By Peter Lepcha

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.79-80

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Book Reviews

Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. I, No. 1 (May 2010)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.79-80 | Page No: 79-80| Section: Book Reviews
Book Review: Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature An Introduction (2006) | 79

BOOK REVIEW

Mark Knight and Emma Mason, Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature an Introduction, (United States: Oxford University Press, 2006), 245, £18.00, ISBN 978-0-19-927711-7.

Peter Lepcha is a Lecturer at Salesian College Siliguri Campus, and Co-ordinator of Vocational Training Courses.

This thought-provoking and enriching book makes for a good pleasure reading, to students and scholars alike. The authors Mark Knight is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University and Emma Mason is a Lecturer in the Department of English and comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

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Timothy Larsen, Crisis of Doubt - Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England

By Peter Lepcha

DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.81-82

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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. I, No. 1 (May 2010)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.01.2010.81-82 | Page No: 81-82| Section: Book Reviews
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BOOK REVIEW

Timothy Larsen, Crisis of Doubt - Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England, (United States: Oxford University Press, 2006), 317, £ 17.50, ISBN 978-0-19-954403-5

Peter Lepcha is a Lecturer at Salesian College Siliguri Campus, and Co-ordinator of Vocational Training Courses.

The author Timothy Larsen is Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, USA, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. The book Crisis of Doubt is a well researched book, lucid in reading as well as well argued to state the premise ‘the crisis of doubt’ against ‘the crisis of faith’. Larsen begins with a powerful critique of the “crisis of faith” literature, and some of the misrepresentations that he uncovers are indeed grotesque. As the title suggests this book discusses about the crises of the faith the Victorians underwent and this book has as its dominant theme the discussions on religion in the nineteenth century England. This book no doubt exposes the weakness of Christianity as it was done by new Darwinian thinking which criticized the Biblical conception of the creation of the universe. The present work focuses on the free thinking and secularist leaders who came to the faith and those who left the faith. As skeptics, they had imbibed all the latest ideas that seemed to undermine faith; nevertheless, they went on to experience a crisis of doubt, and then to defend in their writings and lectures the intellectual cogency of Christianity. The Victorian crisis of doubt was surprisingly large. Telling this story serves to restore its true proportion and to reveal the intellectual strength of faith in the nineteenth century.

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