Providence and Love : Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin

The studies in Providence and Love find a common theme in the loss of a sense of Providence in the nineteenth century and the attempt to see Romantic love as a substitute. John Beer uses previously unpublished manuscript material to explore a number of unresolved literary questions, such as the possibility of identifying the subject of Wordsworth's `Lucy' poems. This new material includes some recently discovered letters which cast new light on George Eliot's involvement with Cambridge.