Secularity and the limits of reason in Swinburne’s “Hymn to Proserpine” and “Hymn of Man”

buir.contributor.authorÇelikkol, Ayşe
dc.citation.epage324en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage301en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber49en_US
dc.contributor.authorÇelikkol, Ayşe
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-17T11:59:33Z
dc.date.available2022-02-17T11:59:33Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-11
dc.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_US
dc.description.abstractAs the philosopher Charles Taylor argues, some experiences of the secular have surprisingly little to do with the “self-sufficient power of reason” that Kant celebrates in “What Is Enlightenment?” This essay argues that Algernon Charles Swinburne offers such a novel strand of secularity in his “Hymn to Proserpine” and “Hymn of Man.” In these poems, time is a power external to the self that is not transcendent yet which the mind cannot fully grasp. Exploring the age of the Earth and the process of evolution, Victorian scientists had been suggesting that the depths of time lie beyond what the human mind may observe or understand, and this notion of time surfaces in Swinburne's poetry. “Hymn to Proserpine” attends to the limits of reason as it evokes deep time. “Hymn to Man,” in which humans channel the power of time, presents logos as both external and internal to the individual subject. By representing and formally registering deep time, Swinburne's poems restore awe and wonder to a world in which God remains absent. Swinburne presents an enchanted vision of the secular and contributes to the pluralization of nontheistic perspectives.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1060150319000366en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1470-1553
dc.identifier.issn1060-1503
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/77470
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150319000366en_US
dc.source.titleVictorian Literature and Cultureen_US
dc.titleSecularity and the limits of reason in Swinburne’s “Hymn to Proserpine” and “Hymn of Man”en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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