Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / Was Henry James a religious man? There is today no debate among serious critics that moral crises are the central concern of James's fiction, but the obviously related question of the religious base of James's moral universe remains unexamined. In the course of this present study, it has been necessary to raise this question, and it has been possible to offer an answer to it. If by "religious" one means "adhering to a theologi cal credal construct," James was not a religious man; but if one means by the term, a man who denies materialism and aff irms not only the value but the reality of the spiritual realm, the super-natural realm, then Henry James was indeed a religious man. Furthermore, as this dissertation shows, his view of human nature approves the orthodox Christian perspective. And in his evaluation of the results of the dis integration of the religious center of Puritanism, James offered a critique of the modern a religious and irreligious mind as severe as that of his theologically oriented religious contemporaries [TRUNCATED] / 2031-01-01
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/34478 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Burstein, Frances |
| Publisher | Boston University |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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