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Jane Ellen Harrison

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Alpha and Omega (1915) is a collection of essays, lectures, and letters written by Jane Ellen Harrison and published for Harrison during the outbreak of World War I.

Contents

Contents

  • Crabbed Age and Youth — read to Trinity College
  • Heresy and Humanity (1912) — published by the Cambridge Society of Heretics
  • Unanimism and Conversion — published by the Cambridge Society of Heretics
  • "Homo Sum" — letter to an anti-suffragist
  • Scientiae Sacra Fames — read before the London Sociological Society
  • The Influence of Darwinism on the Study of Religions — or "The Creation of Darwinism of the Scientific Study of Religions." (143)
  • Alpha and Omega — read to Trinity College; "if we are to keep our hold on Religion, theology must go." (179)
  • Art and Mr. Clive Bell — response to Art by Clive Bell (1914)
  • Epilogue on the War: Peace and Patriotism

    • Purpose

    In Alpha and Omega's preface, Harrison explains why she published such various topics, ranging from magic to post-Impressionism, in one work. She says, "Seen in the fierce glare of war, these theories -- academic in origin and interest -- ... seemed like faded photographs." (v-vi) World War I had brought a melancholy to Harrison's life because pacifist leanings, as admitted in the Epilogue, isolated her.

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    Alpha and Omega (Harrison) Wikipedia
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