Religious experience and the modernist novel

Religious experience and the modernist novel / Pericles Lewis.

"In Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, Pericles Lewis considers the development of modernism in the novel in relation to changing attitudes to religion. Through comparisons of major novelists with sociologists and psychologists from the same period, Lewis identifies the unique ways t...

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Main Author: Lewis, Pericles
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Experience (Religion) in literature.
Literature and society > Europe > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature)
Holy Cross Note:Rehm copy signed by the author.
Speakers & Fellows Collection
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Churchgoing
  • 2. God's afterlife
  • 3. Henry James and the varieties of religious experience
  • 4. Marcel Proust and the elementary forms of religious life
  • 5. Franz Kafka and the hermeneutics of suspicion
  • 6. Virginia Woolf and the disenchantment of the world
  • 7. The burial of the dead.

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