Defending Tennyson
Dorothy L. Sayers’s interactions with Tennyson’s poetry provide a powerful example of her theology of charitable reading. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Sayers refused to oversimplify Tennyson’s works. She defended him from his critics and used some of his ideas to inform Gaudy Night, crafting a...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2017]
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Christianity & literature
Année: 2017, Volume: 66, Numéro: 2, Pages: 274-292 |
| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianisme et culture TK Époque contemporaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Theology
B The Princess B SAYERS, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957 B Alfred Lord Tennyson B theology of reading B PRINCESS, The (Poem : Tennyson) B Dorothy L. Sayers B GAUDY Night (Book) B TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 B Gaudy Night |
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| Résumé: | Dorothy L. Sayers’s interactions with Tennyson’s poetry provide a powerful example of her theology of charitable reading. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Sayers refused to oversimplify Tennyson’s works. She defended him from his critics and used some of his ideas to inform Gaudy Night, crafting an insightful critique of The Princess that acknowledges the poem’s problems but also emphasizes its underlying truths. Sayers never completely articulated her theology of charitable reading, but with her approach to Tennyson, she enacts the theology that is implicit in her reflections on the artist in The Mind of the Maker. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333116645610 |