Patterns of Epiphany: From Wordsworth to Tolstoy, Pater, and Barrett Browning. .(Book Review) From: Style | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2001 Northern Illinois University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Martin Bidney. Patterns of Epiphany: From Wordsworth to Tolstoy, Pater, and Barrett Browning. Carbondale: Southern illinois University Press, 1997. 235 pp./$34.95 cloth

Martin Bidney is ambitious in choosing to write a book about epiphanies in literature--"puzzling but privileged moments, sudden gifts of vision, when one's feeling of aliveness intensifies and the senses quicken" (1). For those of us drawn to literature early in our reading lives by the moment in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man when Stephen Dedalus experiences "the call of life to his soul not the dull ...

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