The Bible in the Nineteenth Century: The Word and its Re-Wordings in
British Literature and Thought
The Bible has played a significant part in British culture since the
Reformation. It has been a major reference not only in the field of
religious experience but also, more broadly, in artistic _expression and
intellectual reflection. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the
Evangelical Revival placed the Scriptures at the heart of religious
practices and certain Romantics reasserted the importance of the Bible
by offering new readings.
Every era, however, and perhaps even every author, appropriates the
Bible in a particular way and, consequently, the interpretation of the
Bible may be subject to a variety of influences due to intellectual
developments as well as the evolution of society. What characterised the
nineteenth century was the importance of social change (notably because
of a growing population and the Industrial Revolution), as well as an
enthusiastic, all-embracing intellectual energy which radically
transformed existing views on the Scriptures. Science and philosophy,
for instance, discussed Man's place in nature, his origin and his
destiny. Artists and writers who were inspired by their reading of
Biblical texts came to deal with them in a way that was different from
previous generations. As the years went on, new controversies emerged
about the authority of the Bible and the question of its inerrancy.
It is therefore interesting to raise the question of the relationship
between culture in the broad sense of the term (including for instance
literature, philosophy, science and theology) and the Bible. Following
on from the LISA volumes devoted to "Re-Writings" I and II, this issue
will be concerned less with the specifically religious matters than with
the analysis of the evolution of the relationship between the Word and
its Re-Wordings in nineteenth-century British literature and thought.
Please send your proposals (one A4 page maximum) before January 30,
2006, to: Elise Ouvrard
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<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Frédéric Slaby
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short bio-bibliography. For information about presentation norms, please
refer to the submission guidelines which appear on the LISA e-journal
website
<http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/anglais/lisa/english/consignes.php>
(http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/anglais/lisa/index.php).
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