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Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800-2000
Andrew Dix (Ed.)
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Description for Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800-2000
Hardback. Editor(s): Dix, Andrew; Taylor, Jonathan. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
God is dead,' Nietzsche famously declared in The Gay Science; but this book will investigate God's surprising persistence and resurrection in the works of even the most seemingly atheistic of writers, who continue to deploy Judaic and Christian narratives and tropes even as they radically rewrite them in the face of new cultural, political and scientific imperatives. Contributors explore the range, power and implication of Christian and Jewish heresies in canonical Anglo-American writers -- including Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, T S Eliot, John Steinbeck and Jim Crace -- as well as in some less familiar texts: ... Read more
God is dead,' Nietzsche famously declared in The Gay Science; but this book will investigate God's surprising persistence and resurrection in the works of even the most seemingly atheistic of writers, who continue to deploy Judaic and Christian narratives and tropes even as they radically rewrite them in the face of new cultural, political and scientific imperatives. Contributors explore the range, power and implication of Christian and Jewish heresies in canonical Anglo-American writers -- including Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, T S Eliot, John Steinbeck and Jim Crace -- as well as in some less familiar texts: ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845190262
SKU
V9781845190262
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About Andrew Dix (Ed.)
Andrew Dix is Lecturer in American Literature and Film at Loughborough University and Tutor in Literature for the Workers' Educational Association. He has published articles and book chapters on Jonathan Raban's travel writing and on both Native and African American fiction. Jonathan Taylor is Lecturer in English at Loughborough. He is the author of Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing, ... Read more
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