How Long to Read Robert Elsmere

How Long Does it Take to Read Robert Elsmere?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 36 minutes to read Robert Elsmere by Humphry Ward, Mrs.

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Robert Elsmere is a novel by Mrs. Humphry Ward published in 1888. It was immediately successful, quickly selling over a million copies and gaining the admiration of Henry James.Inspired by the religious crises of early Victorian clergymen such as her father Tom Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, and James Anthony Froude (particularly as expressed in the last's novel The Nemesis of Faith), it is about an Oxford clergyman who begins to doubt the doctrines of the Anglican Church after encountering the writings of German rationalists like Schelling and David Strauss.Instead of succumbing to atheism or Roman Catholicism, however, Elsmere takes up a "constructive liberalism" (which Ward received from Thomas Hill Green) stressing social work amongst the poor and uneducated. Ward was inspired to write Robert Elsmere after hearing a sermon by John Wordsworth in which he argued that religious unsettlement, such as that experienced in England throughout the nineteenth century, leads to sin; Ward decided to respond by creating a sympathetic, loosely fictionalized account of the people involved in this unsettlement at the present, including her friends Benjamin Jowett, Mark Pattison, and her uncle Matthew Arnold. The novel was the subject of a famous review by William Ewart Gladstone in which he criticized the novel's advocacy of the "dissociation of the moral judgment from a special series of religious formulae." In a more jocular manner, Oscar Wilde in his essay "The Decay of Lying" famously quipped that Robert Elsmere was "simply Arnold's Literature and Dogma with the literature left out."

How long is Robert Elsmere?

Robert Elsmere by Humphry Ward, Mrs. is 446 pages long, and a total of 114,176 words.

This makes it 151% the length of the average book. It also has 140% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Robert Elsmere Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 23 minutes to read Robert Elsmere aloud.

What Reading Level is Robert Elsmere?

Robert Elsmere is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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