England's Secular Scripture by Jo Carruthers
By outlining Protestantism and Englishness in early-modern literature to the present-day, this study reveals how other religious identities can be alienated in British society.-
Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist
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The Late Walter Benjamin
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Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century
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Creation and Apocalypse in Feminist Speculative Fiction
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Prayer and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing
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Theologies of Pain
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Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative
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The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology
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Jeanette Winterson and Religion
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The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace
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The Glyph and the Gramophone
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Activism and the Literary Self in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature
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Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse
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The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton
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Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature
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Djuna Barnes and Theology
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Jesus in the Victorian Novel
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Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination
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Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel
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Jewish Feeling
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Blake. Wordsworth. Religion.
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The Bible in the American Short Story
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Faith in Poetry
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Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief
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Religion and American Literature Since 1950
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Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature
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Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought
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Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture
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Forgiveness in Victorian Literature
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The New Atheist Novel
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Biblical Sterne
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The Gospel According to the Novelist
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Dante and the Sense of Transgression
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Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination
Critique that is incisive, rigorous and compassionate, unflinching in its interrogation of secularist presuppositions and yet unpolemical, Carruther's volume shows the vitality of the new religion and literature and all it has to offer to mainstream English studiesIf this is the harbinger of post-secular scholarship, give me more. -- Lori Branch, Associate Professor of English, University of Iowa, USA
Books like this perform an invaluable function by explaining the emergence of…misconceptions, thus hopefully preparing the ground for their obsolescence. * Studies in English Literature, Vol. 53, No. 1 *
Carruthers... [employs] to startling effect the critical apparatus of the merged disciplines of literature and theology. -- Katherine Brown Downey * Religious Studies Review *
Books like this perform an invaluable function by explaining the emergence of…misconceptions, thus hopefully preparing the ground for their obsolescence. * Studies in English Literature, Vol. 53, No. 1 *
Carruthers... [employs] to startling effect the critical apparatus of the merged disciplines of literature and theology. -- Katherine Brown Downey * Religious Studies Review *
Jo Carruthers is Research Council Academic Fellow at the University of Bristol. Her reception history of the book of Esther, Esther Through the Centuries, will be published by Blackwell later this year.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780826439130 |
| ISBN 10 | 0826439136 |
| Title | England's Secular Scripture |
| Author | Jo Carruthers |
| Series | New Directions In Religion And Literature |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2011-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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