ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Born into an Anglican family, from the age of fifteen to twenty-two George Eliot (1819–80) was under the sway of ‘Evangelical Christianity’ and became ‘a strong Calvinist’, though she remained within the Anglican Church.

Detailed explanation-2: -Abstract. T. S. Eliot became a baptized Anglican in 1927 and, in the preface to For Lancelot Andrewes, declared himself an “anglo-catholic in religion.” This dissertation examines Eliot’s works in the light of his Anglo-Catholicism.

Detailed explanation-3: -In early modern times, the first explicit atheist known by name was the German-languaged Danish critic of religion Matthias Knutzen (1646–after 1674), who published three atheist writings in 1674.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first known explicit atheist was the German critic of religion Matthias Knutzen in his three writings of 1674. He was followed by two other explicit atheist writers, the Polish ex-Jesuit philosopher Kazimierz Łyszczyński and in the 1720s by the French priest Jean Meslier.

Detailed explanation-5: -George Eliot’s love affairs led to public scandal. Although he left Jervis in 1852, Lewes could not sue for divorce; under the terms of the law, he had condoned his wife’s adultery by registering the births of her children by another man in his own name.