Literary criticism and Christian ethics in service to one another -- Toward a Christian ethics of reading, or, why we cannot be done with Bartleby -- The "best blessing of existence": "conscious worth" in Emma -- Honor, faithfulness, and community in Anthony Trollope's The warden and He knew he was right -- The "very temple of authorised love": Henry James and The portrait of a lady -- A light that has been there from the beginning: Stephen Crane and the Gospel of John -- Afterword: postliberal Christian scholarship: an engagement with Rorty and Stout
Summary
This study seeks to articulate a particular moral, Christian vision and discover what it entails for reading texts; it tries to bring literary criticism and Christian ethics into discussion with one another
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index
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