Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible

From the author's introduction: "The present study contributes to the ongoing reevaluation of Victorian literary and religious culture by considering how five mutually influential and highly prominent mid-Victorian poets--Tennyson, the Brownings, Clough, and George Eliot--each took a more optimistic and more innovative approach to the changing nineteenth-century Bible than is generally appreciated." LaPorte (English, U. of Washington) offers readings of works including Aurora Leigh, The Idylls of the King, and The Ring and the Book to explore and elucidate some original ideas with far-reaching implications. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)