Title Puritanism and modernist novels : from moral character to the ethical self / Lynne W. Hinojosa

Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) Series Literature, religion, & postsecular studies Summary "In Puritanism and Modernist Novels: From Moral Character to the Ethical Self, Lynne W. Hinojosa complicates traditional interpretations of the novel and literary modernism as secular developments of modernity by arguing that the British novel tradition is fundamentally shaped by Puritan hermeneutics and Bible-reading practices. This tradition, however, simultaneously works to dismantle the categories associated with social morality and moral character, helping to form "Puritanism" into a fictional stereotype. Hinojosa demonstrates that the novel thus perpetuates a narrative that associates Puritanism with moral and religious confinement, on the one hand, and modern longing with escape, on the other-even as it remains tied to Puritan views of history and the self. Puritanism and Modernist Novels offers new formal and contextual readings of early modernist novels by Oscar Wilde, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, and Ford Madox Ford. Hinojosa demonstrates that, while they long for escape, these authors still question the value of the novelistic narrative of confinement and escape. Bridging modernist and novel studies, Puritanism and Modernist Novels contributes to conversations about secularization and religion in both fields, highlighting the limitations created by the secularization narrative of modernity."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Christianity and literature. Puritan movements in literature. English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism English fiction -- History and criticism Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain RELIGION -- Christianity -- Literature & the Arts. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Christianity and literature English fiction English fiction -- Irish authors Modernism (Literature) Puritan movements in literature English. Languages & Literatures. English Literature. Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2014027044 ISBN 9780814273753 0814273750 0814293786 9780814293782

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