Religion, Language, Nation: William Barnes's Christianity.

This article argues that William Barnes looked back to the fourth-century Christianity of his local Dorset to explore questions of faith, language, and nation. In his poetry and still unpublished sermons, Barnes spoke directly to his community in an Old West Saxon Dorset dialect about the early Chri...

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Publicado en:Victorian Studies Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 240 - 255
Autor principal: Mason, Emma
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Publicado: Indiana University Press Winter2024
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