Alpha and Omega (Harrison)

Alpha and Omega (Harrison)

"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

*"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 glar 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.

References

*Harrison, Jane Ellen. "Alpha and Omega". AMS Press: New York, 1973. (ISBN 0-404-56753-3)


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