Author: Harold Frederic Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination
Author: Harold Frederic The Damnation of Theron Ware
Author: Harold FredericPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1948742195
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
First published in 1896, this unsung masterpiece of American literature details the rise and fall of a Methodist minister in upstate New York. Part of Belt's Revivals series and with a new introduction by Ruth Graham. Th
The Damnation of Theron Ware
Author: Harold FredericPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This Faustian tale of the spiritual disintegration of a young minister, written in the 1890s, deals subtly and powerfully with the impact of science on innocence and the collective despair that marked the transition into the modern age. In its realism, "The Damnation of Theron Ware" foreshadows Howells; in its conscious imagery it prefigures Norris, Crane, Henry James, and the "symbolic realism" of the twentieth century. Its author, Harold Frederic, internationally famous as London correspondent for the "New York Times," wrote the novel two years before his death.
The Damnation of Theron Ware, Or, Illumination
Author: Harold FredericPublisher: Folcroft Library Editions
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Published in 1896, "The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination" is a profound psychological portrait of the spiritual undoing of a guileless Methodist minister who is taken in by a rural townspeople's various progressive ideas, from liberalism to bohemianism, only to be spurned by them for being too conventional. Described by Everett Carter as "among the four or five best novels written by an American during the nineteenth century," the novel, as Joyce Carol Oates writes in her Introduction, has "shrewd, disturbing insights into the human pysche." This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the authoritative Harold Frederic Edition.
The Damnation of Theron Ware
Author: Harold FredericPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781412812542
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Theron Ware is a pleasing and ambitious young minister assigned to a church in upstate New York. He arrives with his sensible wife and discovers he is expected to follow the spiritual and economic dictates of a group of Methodist church fathers who are hard-nosed businessmen six days a week and hard-nosed evangelicals on the seventh. When he meets his first Irish Catholics, he is unsettled but thrilled: they might as well be sorcerers and goddesses leading him into forbidden but exquisite rites and mysteries. Theron becomes desperate to join their world without having to surrender the rewards of his own.
The Damnation of Theron Ware
Author: Harold FredericPublisher:
ISBN: 9780781211925
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
The Damnation of Theron Ware
Author: Harold FredericPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674190016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
First published in 1896, this is the saga of a small town Methodist minister entangled in religious doubts and allured by sex and beauty.
Damnation of Theron Ware
Author: Harold FredericThe Damnation of Theron Ware, Or, Illumination
Author: Harold FredericPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Published in 1896, "The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination" is a profound psychological portrait of the spiritual undoing of a guileless Methodist minister who is taken in by a rural townspeople's various progressive ideas, from liberalism to bohemianism, only to be spurned by them for being too conventional. Described by Everett Carter as "among the four or five best novels written by an American during the nineteenth century," the novel, as Joyce Carol Oates writes in her Introduction, has "shrewd, disturbing insights into the human pysche." This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the authoritative Harold Frederic Edition.
The Damnation of Theron Ware
Author: Harold FredericPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781507810392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Damnation of Theron Ware By Harold Frederic A Classic of American Literature The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic. It is widely considered a classic of American literature by scholars and critics, though the common reader often has not heard of it. The novel reveals a great deal about early 20th century provincial America, religious life, and the depressed state of intellectual and artistic culture in small towns. It is similar to Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh and Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry. It is written in a realistic style. The novel centers on the life of a Methodist pastor named Theron Ware who has recently moved to a fictional small town in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, which Frederic modeled after Utica, New York. A promising young pastor recently married, Theron has a number of experiences that cause him to begin to question the Methodist religion, his role as a minister and even the very existence of God. His moral decline (or illumination) is heightened through his dealings with Father Forbes, the town's Catholic priest; Dr. Ledsmar, a local atheist, philosopher, and man of science; and Celia Madden, a local Irish Catholic girl, a species of aesthete, with whom Theron becomes hopelessly infatuated. In the end, these three "advanced" characters find Theron a bore, and tell him so. He goes on a binge, and is saved by Brother and Sister Soulsby, common-sensical fund-raisers for Methodist congregations. Their feet are on the ground, and they pack Theron and his wife off to the new state of Washington, where--who knows?--he might end up in politics. The name "Theron Ware" was later used by author James Blish for his "villain" in the novel Black Easter. In this novel Ware brings about the death of God and the triumph of Satan. The book was adapted into a play in 1979 by a Troy University theatre professor and produced by the school's drama department.