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Apocalypse South - Judgment, Cataclysm, And Resistance In The Regional Imaginary

by Hoefer Anthony Dyer Hoefer

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 <div>While John Winthrop might have famously uttered the phrase "city upon a hill" on the way to Massachusetts, the strands of millennialism and exceptionalism that remain so central to U.S. political discourse are now dominated by eschatological visions that have emerged from the particular historical experiences of the U.S. South. Despite the strategic exploitation of this reality by political communicators, scholars in the humanities have paid little attention to the eschatological visions offered by southern religious culture.</div><div> </div><div>Fortunately, writers and artists have not ignored such matters; compared to their academic counterparts, southern novelists have been far better attuned to a <i>southern apocalyptic imaginary</i>—a field of reference, drawn from the cosmology of southern evangelical Protestantism, that maps the apocalyptic possibilities of cataclysm, judgment, deliverance, and even revolution onto the landscape of the region. <i>Apocalypse South</i> rectifies the omissions in existing scholarship by interrogating the role of apocalyptic discourse in selected works of fiction by four southern writers—William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Randall Kenan, and Dorothy Allison. In doing so, it reinvigorates discussions of religion in southern literary scholarship and introduces a new element in the ongoing investigation into how regional identities function in notions of national mission and American exceptionalism. Engaging concerns of religion, race, sexuality, and community in fiction from the 1930s to the present, <i>Apocalypse South</i> offers a new conceptual framework for considering what has long been considered "southern Gothic literature"—a framework less concerned with the conventions of a particular literary genre than with the ways in which literature exposes and even tries to make sense of the contradictions within cultures. </div>
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Hard Sayings - The Rhetoric Of Christian Orthodoxy In Late Modern Fiction

by Haddox Thomas F. Haddox

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 <div><div><i>Hard Sayings: The Rhetoric of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction</i> by Thomas F. Haddox examines the work of six avowedly Christian writers of fiction in the period from World War II to the present. This period is often characterized in western societies by such catchphrases as "postmodernism" and "secularization," with the frequent implication that orthodox belief in the dogmas of Christianity has become untenable among educated readers. How, then, do we account for the continued existence of writers of self-consciously literary fiction who attempt to persuade readers of the truth, desirability, and utility of the dogmas of Christianity? Is it possible to take these writers’ efforts on their own terms and to understand and evaluate the rhetorical strategies that this kind of persuasion might entail?<br> </div><div>Informed by the school of rhetorical narratology that includes such critics as Wayne Booth, James Phelan, and Richard Walsh, <i>Hard Sayings</i> offers fresh new readings of fictive works by Flannery O’Connor, Muriel Spark, John Updike, Walker Percy, Mary Gordon, and Marilynne Robinson. In its argument that orthodox Christianity, as represented in fiction, still has the power to persuade and to trouble, it contributes to ongoing debates about the nature and scope of modernity, postmodernity, and secularization.</div></div>
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American Exceptionalism As Religion - Postmodern Discontent

by Carson Jordan Carson

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 Jordan Carson’s <i>American Exceptionalism as Religion</i> looks at how American nationalist ideologies intersect with religious ones in contemporary literature. Carson traces out how an exceptionalist belief system began to emerge historically with a distorted picture of religious commitment. He then connects this trend to writers such as Don DeLillo, Ana Castillo, Thomas Pynchon, George Saunders, and Marilynne Robinson to argue that these authors dismantle the privatization of religion in their writing and then offer their own alternatives. Their work, he argues, redefines religion in terms of practice and discipline, gauging it by its power to ground and guide behavior, morality, and sociality.<br> <br>As American exceptionalism resurfaces in public discourse, Carson’s timely work invites readers to reconsider the nexus of religion, politics, and culture. Carson argues that defining religion according to secularist criteria has insulated ostensibly secular ideologies as well as traditional religion from public scrutiny. DeLillo’s, Castillo’s, Pynchon’s, Saunders’s, and Robinson’s redefinitions of religion result in a better grasp of how individuals actually live out their religious lives. More importantly, these authors help erect a framework for constructively engaging American exceptionalism and the ideas that support it.<br>
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Missionary Cosmopolitanism In Nineteenth-Century British Literature

by Werner Winter Jade Werner

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 <i>Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature </i>explores the notion that missionaries, often perceived as only evangelically motivated in the British imperial project, were also spurred on by cosmopolitan ideals. Winter Jade Werner makes this surprising connection in order to write against standard understandings of missionary work as well as typical understandings of cosmopolitanism as a deeply secular project.<br><i>Missionary Cosmopolitanism </i>identifies the nineteenth-century novel as thematically and formally attuned to the tension between missionaries’ cosmopolitan values and the moral impoverishment of their imperialist and expansionist practices. Werner’s chapters interact with canonical works such as Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane Eyre</i> and Charles Dickens’s <i>Bleak House,</i> along with lesser-known works by Robert Southey and Sydney Owenson. Ultimately, <i>Missionary Cosmopolitanism</i> demonstrates that nineteenth-century literature both illustrated and helped define missionary discourses regarding cosmopolitan ideas, showing how global evangelicalism continues to tap into the "new cosmopolitanisms" of today.<br>
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Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion - Literary, Historical, And Religious Studies In Dialogue

by King Joshua King e Werner Winter Jade Werner

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 <div>Bringing together scholars from literary, historical, and religious studies,<i>Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion</i>interrogates the seemingly obvious category of "religion." This collection argues that any application of religion engages in complex and relatively modern historical processes. In considering the various ways that nineteenth-century religion was constructed, commodified, and practiced, contributors to this volume "speak" to each other, finding interdisciplinary links and resonances across a range of texts and contexts.<br> <br>The participle in its title—<i>Constructing</i>—acknowledges that any articulation of nineteenth-century religion is never just a work of the past: scholars also actively construct religion as their disciplinary assumptions (and indeed personal and lived investments) shape their research and findings. <i>Constructing NineteenthCentury Religion</i> newly analyzes the diverse ways in which religion was debated and deployed in a wide range of nineteenthcentury texts and contexts. While focusing primarily on nineteenthcentury Britain, the collection also contributes to the increasingly transnational and transcultural outlook of postsecular studies, drawing connections between Britain and the United States, continental Europe, and colonial India.<br> </div>
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Theology Of Sense - John Updike, Embodiment, And Late Twentieth-Century American Literature

by Dill Scott Dill

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 <div>Scott Dill’s <i>A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature</i> brings together theology, aesthetics, and the body, arguing that Updike, a central figure in post-1945 American literature, deeply embeds in his work questions of the body and the senses with questions of theology. Dill offers new understandings not only of the work of Updike—which is importantly being revisited since the author’s death in 2009—but also new understandings of the relationship between aesthetics, religion, and physical experience.<br><br>Dill explores Updike’s unique literary legacy in order to argue for a genuinely postsecular theory of aesthetic experience. Each chapter takes up one of the five senses and its relation to broader theoretical concerns: affect, subjectivity, ontology, ethics, and theology. While placing Updike’s work in relation to other late twentieth-century American writers, Dill explains their notions of embodiment and uses them to render a new account of postsecular aesthetics. No other novelist has portrayed mere sense experience as carefully, as extensively, or as theologically—repeatedly turning to the doctrine of creation as his stylistic justification. Across this examination of his many stories, novels, poems, and essays, Dill proves that Updike forces us to reconsider the power of literature to revitalize sense experience as a theological question.<br> </div>
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Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, And The Search For Influence

by Hooten Wilson Jessica Hooten Wilson

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 <div>Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a study that revives and complicates notions of adaptation and influence, Jessica Hooten Wilson details the long career of Walker Percy. <i>Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence</i> demonstrates—through close reading of both writers’ works, examination of archival materials, and biographical criticism—not only how pervasive and inescapable Dostoevsky’s influence was but also how necessary it was to the distinctive strengths of Percy’s fiction.<br> <br> <br>From Dostoevsky, Percy learned how to captivate his non-Christian readership with fiction saturated by a Christian vision of reality. Not only was his method of imitation in line with this Christian faith but also the aesthetic mode and very content of his narratives centered on his knowledge of Christ. The influence of Dostoevsky on Percy, then, becomes significant as a modern case study for showing the illusion of artistic autonomy and long-held, Romantic assumptions about artistic originality. Ultimately, Wilson suggests, only by studying the good that came before can one translate it in a new voice for the here and now.<br> </div>
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Religion Of Empire - Political Theology In Blake''S Prophetic Symbolism

by Rosso G. A. Rosso

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 <div><i>The Religion of Empire:</i> <i>Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism</i> is the first full-length study devoted to interpreting Blake’s three long poems, showing the ways in which the Bible, myth, and politics merge in his prophetic symbolism. In this book, G. A. Rosso examines the themes of empire and religion through the lens of one of Blake’s most distinctive and puzzling images, Rahab, a figure that anchors an account of the development of Blake’s political theology in the latter half of his career. Through the Rahab figure, Rosso argues, Blake interweaves the histories of religion and empire in a wide-ranging attack on the conceptual bases of British globalism in the long eighteenth century. This approach reveals the vast potential that the question of religion offers to a reconsideration of Blake’s attitude to empire.<br><br><i>The Religion of Empire</i> also reevaluates Blake’s relationship with Milton, whose influence Blake both affirms and contests in a unique appropriation of Milton’s prophetic legacy. In this context, Rosso challenges recent views of Blake as complicit with the nationalism and sexism of his time, expanding the religion-empire nexus to include Blake’s esoteric understanding of gender. Foregrounding the role of female characters in the longer prophecies, Rosso discloses the variegated and progressive nature of Blake’s apocalyptic humanism.<br> </div>
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Clashing Convictions - Science And Religion In American Fiction

by Tricomi Albert H. Tricomi

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 <div><i>Clashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction</i> is the first study to identify a body of twentieth-century American fiction that represents the increasing tensions experienced by people of Christian faith in response to Darwinism, the higher biblical criticism, and modern medicine. Delineating how these works dramatize clashes between scientific and conservative Protestant understandings of the world, Albert H. Tricomi examines a canon of ten novels and one iconic play that present a cultural history of inner turmoil as well as social conflict. The three parts of the study chart this increasing inner turmoil, a rising secularist ideology, and finally a fundamentalist revival among alienated biblical literalists.<br> <br>With chapters on James Lane Allen’s <i>The Reign of Law,</i> Harold Frederic’s <i>The Damnation of Theron Ware,</i> William Dean Howells’s <i>The Leatherwood God</i>, Sinclair Lewis’s <i>Arrowsmith</i> and <i>Elmer Gantry</i>, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s <i>Inherit the Wind</i>, and James Scott Bell’s <i>The Darwin Conspiracy,</i> Tricomi offers new readings emphasizing how this canon represents science and religion as in deep, if not irreconcilable, conflict. Tricomi’s sweeping study, with its emphasis on the twentieth century, thus reveals from several directions the processes of secularism even as it identifies the emergence of what some have come to describe as the current "postsecular" moment in America.</div>
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Female Piety And The Invention Of American Puritanism

by Traister Bryce Traister

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 <div><i>Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism</i> reconsiders the standard critical view that women’s religious experiences were either silent consent or hostile response to mainstream Puritan institutions. In this groundbreaking new approach to American Puritanism, Bryce Traister asks how gendered understandings of authentic religious experience contributed to the development of seventeenth-century religious culture and to the "post-religious" historiography of Puritanism in secular modernity. He argues that women were neither marginal nor hostile to the theological and cultural ambitions of seventeenth-century New England religious culture and, indeed, that radicalized female piety was in certain key respects the driving force of New England Puritan culture.<br> <br>Uncovering the feminine interiority of New England Protestantism, <i>Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism</i> positions itself against prevalent historical arguments about the rise of secularism in the modern West. Traister demonstrates that female spirituality became a principal vehicle through which Puritan identity became both absorbed within and foundational for pre-national secular culture. Engaging broadly with debates about religion and secularization, national origins and transnational unsettlements, and gender and cultural authority, this is a foundational reconsideration both of American Puritanism itself and of "American Puritanism" as it has been understood in relation to secular modernity.</div>
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Imagined Spiritual Communities In Britain'S Age Of Print

by King Joshua King

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 <div>In <i>Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print</i>, Joshua King demonstrates how nineteenth-century Britons turned to the printed page to imagine themselves in Christian communities spanning their nation. In contrast with traditional views of the nineteenth century, which regard the period as a turning point for religion from a public life to a privatized decline, <i>Imagined Spiritual Communities</i> argues that the rapid growth of print culture and a voluntary religious market inspired vigorous efforts to form virtual national congregations of readers.<br> <br>Focusing primarily on the work of Anglicans between the 1820s and 1890s, this study begins by freshly interpreting reading and educational programs promoted by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frederick Denison Maurice, and Matthew Arnold. King then traces the emergence of John Keble’s <i>Christian Year</i> as a catalyst for competing visions of a Christian nation united by private reading. He argues that this phenomenon illuminates the structure and reception of best-selling poetic cycles as diverse as Alfred Tennyson’s <i>In Memoriam</i> and Christina Rossetti’s late <i>Verses</i>. Ultimately, <i>Imagined Spiritual Communities</i> reveals how dreams of print-mediated spiritual communion generated new poetic genres and rhetorical strategies, theories and theologies of media and reading, and ambitious schemes of education and church reform.</div>
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Secular Scriptures - Modern Theological Poetics In The Wake Of Dante

by Franke William Franke

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 <div>With <i>Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante</i>, William Franke reexamines the role that literature plays in theological revelation. In the modern world, secularism typically means the exclusion of God from the world. Yet Franke, recognizing that secularity itself is built into religion and revelation, argues that theologically sensitive poetry has driven secularization throughout the modern period. The essays in this volume construct a trajectory through modern poetic literature as it struggled with the sense of a loss of the very possibility of theological revelation. Can literature replace religion? Can it do so triumphantly or only mournfully? Is this literary transmogrification of revelation the death of religion or its rebirth in a vital new form?<br><i>Secular Scriptures</i> examines, through its own original speculative outlook, some of the most compelling exemplars of religious-poetic revelation in modern Western literature. The essays taken as an ensemble revolve around and are bookended by Dante, but they also explore the work of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Leopardi, Baudelaire, Dickinson, and Yeats. Looking both backward and forward from the vantage of Dante, Franke explores the roots of secularized religious vision in antiquity and the Middle Ages, even as he also looks forward toward its fruits in modern poetry and poetics. Ultimately, Franke’s analyses demonstrate the possibilities opened by understanding literature as secularized religious revelation.</div>
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion - Literary, Historical, And Religious Studies In Dialogue

by Joshua King

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A Theology Of Sense - John Updike, Embodiment, And Late Twentieth-Century American Literature

by Scott Dill

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Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, And The Search For Influence

by Jessica Hooten Wilson

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Apocalypse South - Judgment, Cataclysm, And Resistance In The Regional Imaginary

by Anthony Dyer Hoefer

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Enlightened Individualism - Buddhism And Hinduism In American Literature From The Beats To The Present

by Kyle Garton-Gundling

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Hard Sayings - The Rhetoric Of Christian Orthodoxy In Late Modern Fiction

by Thomas F Haddox

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Missionary Cosmopolitanism In Nineteenth-Century British Literature

by Winter Jade Werner

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The Art Of Vision - Ekphrasis In Medieval Literature And Culture

by Ethan Knapp

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Good Words - Evangelicalism And The Victorian Novel

by Mark Knight

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Enlightened Individualism - Buddhism And Hinduism In American Literature From The Beats To The Present

by Kyle Garton-Gundling

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Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, And The Gendering Of God

by Gail Turley Houston

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Unbecoming Language - Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions

by Annabel L Kim

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