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In Romola George Eliot elucidates the morality of Comtean attitudes to
relics and reliquaries. Devotees of Comte’s Religion of Humanity, led by
Frederic Harrison, experienced every reliquarian thrill sacramentally, as a
sign of grace. Harrison expertly orchestrated the 1901 Millenary of Alfred’s
Death to help us all experience these fetishistic thrills unashamedly,
collectively, in public. During the 1849 Jubilee of Alfred’s Birth, the thrill of
translating Alfred’s burning words into a modern reliquary healed Martin
Tupper’s notorious stammer. Can we who today still love Alfred afford to
sacrifice such devout thrills of emotion felt by those who locked, kissed,
and unlocked the Victorian reliquaries — the Chronicle, the Life, the
Works — in which Alfred’s relics, we hope and trust, still lie enshrined?
Amsterdam University Press
Title: Kiss the Reliquary
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In Romola George Eliot elucidates the morality of Comtean attitudes to
relics and reliquaries.
Devotees of Comte’s Religion of Humanity, led by
Frederic Harrison, experienced every reliquarian thrill sacramentally, as a
sign of grace.
Harrison expertly orchestrated the 1901 Millenary of Alfred’s
Death to help us all experience these fetishistic thrills unashamedly,
collectively, in public.
During the 1849 Jubilee of Alfred’s Birth, the thrill of
translating Alfred’s burning words into a modern reliquary healed Martin
Tupper’s notorious stammer.
Can we who today still love Alfred afford to
sacrifice such devout thrills of emotion felt by those who locked, kissed,
and unlocked the Victorian reliquaries — the Chronicle, the Life, the
Works — in which Alfred’s relics, we hope and trust, still lie enshrined?.
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