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Publication Date:
7 Dec 2009
Language:
English;English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 29 May 2024
Description
This work offers an important insight into the role that the religious imagination plays in the creation of sacred worlds. The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new directions it might take. By returning to foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, the essays explore different ways of using interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature. Contributions from some of the leading voices in the field unite to offer an important exploration of the possible worlds that the study of religion and literature imagines.
Contents
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction (Mark Knight and Louise Lee, University of Roehampton, UK); 2. Reception History and the Study of the Bible (Chris Rowland, Oxford University, UK); 3. De Quincey and the Bible (Jon Roberts, Liverpool University, UK); 4. Ritual, Affection and Affiliation in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto and The Melting Pot (Jo Carruthers, Bristol University, UK); 5. Deity in Dispatches: Charles Kingsley and the Crimean Roots of Muscular Christianity (Louise Lee, Roehampton University, UK); 6. "The Vagaries of Religious Experience": Religious Fiction and Critical Theory (Kevin McCarron, Roehampton University, UK); 7. Geoffrey Hill and the Problem of Modern Religious Poetry (Kevin Hart, University of Virginia, USA); 8. "The Oldest Dream of All": Visions of Heaven in Contemporary Fiction (Andrew Tate, Lancaster University, USA); 9. Walter Benjamin's History of Nowhere (John Schad, Lancaster University, UK); 10. The Deconstruction of Christianity: From the Hand of God to the Hand of Man (Arthur Bradley, Lancaster University, UK); 11. Literature, Theory and Religion after Religion (Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK); 12. Saving Literary Criticism (Mark Knight, Roehampton University, UK, and Emma Mason, Warwick University, UK); 13. Divine Invasion (Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University, USA); Index.
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