{"title":"John Glendening","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Glendening’s works explore the nuanced interplay between literature, science, and religion, often within the context of Neo-Victorian narratives. His writing offers insightful analyses that appeal to readers interested in the intellectual currents shaping contemporary and historical thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for those drawn to \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e, Glendening’s books invite reflection on the cultural and philosophical dimensions of modern and Victorian-era literature, enriching understanding through detailed scholarship and thoughtful interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"science-and-religion-in-neo-victorian-novels-by-john-glendening-9780415819435","title":"Science and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriticism about the neo-Victorian novel — a genre of historical fiction that re-imagines aspects of the Victorian world from present-day perspectives — has expanded rapidly in the last fifteen years but given little attention to the engagement between science and religion. Of great interest to Victorians, this subject often appears in neo-Victorian novels, including those by such well-known authors as John Fowles, A. S. Byatt, Graham Swift, and Mathew Kneale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScience and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels\u003c\/em\u003e discusses novels in which nineteenth-century science, including geology, palaeontology, and evolutionary theory, interacts with religion through accommodations, conflicts, and crises of faith. In general, these texts abandon conventional religion but retain the ethical connectedness and celebration of life associated with spirituality at its best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRegistering the growth of nineteenth-century secularism and drawing on aspects of the romantic tradition and ecological thinking, they honour the natural world without imagining that it exists for humans or functions in reference to human values. In particular, they enact a form of wonderment: the capacity of the mind to make sense of, creatively adapt, and enjoy the world out of which it has evolved — in short, to endow it with meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProtagonists who come to experience reality in this expansive way release themselves from self-anxiety and alienation. In this book, Glendening shows how, by intermixing past and present, fact and fiction, neo-Victorian narratives, with a few instructive exceptions, manifest this pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607538745580,"sku":"9780415819435","price":353.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7a9166adc2021905681a3bb3586de73e.jpg?v=1778188440"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/john-glendening.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}