Background
Vance, Robert Norman Colbert was born on February 8, 1950 in Belfast, Ireland. Son of William and Myrtle Elizabeth Vance.
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This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed. It begins with a brief outline of Irish history, of Irish writing in Irish and Latin, and of writing in English before 1800. Later chapters consider Irish romanticism, Victorian Ireland, W.B.Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival, new directions in Irish writing after Joyce and the literature of contemporary Ireland, north and south, from 1960 to the present.
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Norman Vance has written the first full-length study of the impact on Victorian Britain of the history and literature of ancient Rome. His comprehensive account shows how not only scholars and poets but also engineers, soldiers, scientists and politicians, gained inspiration from the writing, theory and practice of their Roman predecessors.Professor Vance provides a fascinating account of the sense of connection Victorian Britain felt for the Roman experience, a connection made the more complex because Britain had once been a Roman colony and because Christianity took hold and spread under the Roman empire.
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This book provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century life by examining the nature and context of 'Christian manliness' or 'muscular Christianity', an ideal of conduct that was widely popular with Victorian preachers and writers. It pays particular attention to Charles Kingsley (author of The Water-Babies) and Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown's Schooldays). Dr Vance traces the origins of Christian manliness in the traditions of English sporting prowess, in notions of chivalry and gentlemanliness, and in the preaching of vigourous virtue from St Paul to Victorian evangelists. He also considers the social and religious thought of Coleridge, Carlyle, F. D. Maurice and Thomas Arnold, showing how Kingsley and Hughes developed their own ideals of Christian manliness against this background, and in keen response to the troubles of their time: social unrest, religious rancour, war and disease. A final chapter traces the fragmentation and debasement of the ideal in the twentieth century.
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Irish literature remains, in the popular imagination, a matter of Wilde, Shaw, Synge, Yeats and Joyce. The recent prominence of Seamus Heaney and other poets from the north of Ireland, and the complex Irish, British and cosmopolitan contexts of their work, have altered our sense of the nature and development of Irish literature in English. By tracing a broader stream of tradition to its sources in the 17th century, the author of this book offers new perspectives on the question of Irish national and cultural identity.
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The Sinews of the Spirit: The Ideal of Christian Manliness in Victorian Literature and Religious Thought THE SINEWS OF THE SPIRIT: THE IDEAL OF CHRISTIAN MANLINESS IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT By Vance, Norman ( Author )Feb-04-2010 Paperback By Vance, Norman ( Author ) Paperback 2009
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Vance, Robert Norman Colbert was born on February 8, 1950 in Belfast, Ireland. Son of William and Myrtle Elizabeth Vance.
Bachelor, Oxford, 1971. Master of Arts, Oxford, 1975. Doctor Phil, Oxford, 1975.
Lecturer in English University Sussex, Brighton, England, 1976—1988, senior lecturer, 1988—1991, reader, 1991—1993, professor, since 1993.
(The Sinews of the Spirit: The Ideal of Christian Manlines...)
( This book surveys Irish writing in English over the las...)
(This book provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-cent...)
(Norman Vance has written the first full-length study of t...)
(Irish literature remains, in the popular imagination, a m...)
Fellow: English Association. Member: International Association for Study of Ireland's Literatures.
Married Brenda Elizabeth Richardson, March 28, 1981. Children: Robert, Alison.