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M Contents Acknowledgments xi An Overview 1 1 Victorian Scriptural Hermeneutics: History, Intention, and Evolution 22 Intertext 1: Victorian Legal Interpretation 49 2 Carlyle: Between Biblical Exegesis and Romantic Hermeneutics 61 Intertext 2: Victorian Science and Hermeneutics: The Interpretation of Nature 85 3 George Eliot’s Hermeneutics of Sympathy 95 Intertext 3: Victorian Literary Criticism 131 4 Subjectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Intention: Oscar Wilde and Literary Hermeneutics 141 Epilogue 166 Notes 173 Index 199 This page intentionally left blank. ...

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