Sons and Fathers

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Paternalism and revolt, continuity and change, filial piety and Romantic radicalism: these are aspects of one theme. That literary theme is often expressed in the form of a religious paradox. In the past several hundred years the unity of a divine Father with a Son divine while yet human has been questioned, denied, worried over in its secular and psychological as much as its theological impli- cations by those who, themselves sons and literary if not literal fathers, write about generating forces within imagined time--such writers as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Carlyle, Ruskin, Dickens, Arnold, Yeats, Joyce, Faulkner, Bellow, Berryman, and Roethke. The purpose of this work is to illuminate their variations on the theme.

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Wendell Stacy Johnson

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...this examination of a fascinating dimension of literature and literary biography from the past two centuries should itself prove to be generative of further ideas and studies on the subject. (G.B. Tennyson, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, March 1986)
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