... fashion a contemporary Christian multicultural identity suitably cleansed of the complexity of what Frederick Douglass had earlier called “Christian slavery.” Gilead 's fashioning of a liberal Christian multiculturalism in response to the conservative evangelical and fundamentalist Christian resurgence...

...Christian Thorne The Other Hanoverians simon dickie, Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2011), pp. 384, $50.00, cloth; $37.50, paper. Chances are that you are going to enjoy Simon...

... of Dickens's concern with London's dangerously overcrowded graveyards, but by the 1840s and 1850s the fate of the corpse had also become a key point of contention in the struggle between an orthodox Christian dualism and an emergent psycho-physiology, the latter of which defended itself against charges...

... origins in the literal occupation of shepherds. For Foucault, much of the specificity of our Judeo-Christian inheritance may be traced to the vocation of the sheepherder and his ability to turn cross-species pity or empathy into the action of protective care and governance. Far from the Madding Crowd can...

.... This article focuses on literary portraiture in the Jesus novel, a genre of historical fiction that emerged independently in different national literatures from the 1830s onward alongside several parallel developments, including the secularization of biblical scholarship, the rediscovery of early Christian...

... rationality expresses this apparent contradiction: literary commercialism refers to the formal and impersonal laws of the economic market, while literary professionalism refers to the substantive ethos of service to the community and nation. In underscoring the incompatibility of the Jew and the Christian...

... ( 1970 ): 3 –17. Ajayi , J.F.A. Christian Missions in Nigeria. The Making of a New Elite . Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1969 . Amadiume , Ifi . Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in African Society . London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1987 . Appiah , Kwame Anthony...

..., like Fanon, might be understood as a theorist of decolonization. 1 My account of the birth of the African novel centers around Thomas Mofolo, a Mosotho and third-generation Christian who was educated in the 1890s at schools run by the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS) in Basutoland...

... of physical and emotional hardships by missionaries in their diaries, letters, and journals was not just a call for stronger support back home but also an appeal to localizing and even adapting the Christian message to indigenous worldviews. Anguished lamentations of failure in conversions were offset...

... . Carroll , David . George Eliot and the Conflict of Interpretations . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994 . Carroll , David , ed. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage . New York: Barnes and Noble, 1971 . Chalmers , Thomas . The Application of Christianity to the Commercial and Ordinary...

...OLAKUNLE GEORGE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2008 2008 Works Cited Adorno , Theodor . Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life . Trans. E. F. N. Jephcott London: Verso, 1974 . Ajayi , J.F.A. Christian Missions in Nigeria 1841–1891: The Making of a New Élite . Evanston...

... but rather what Pecora calls the “afterlife of the novel,” a phase in which novels begin to return to Christian theology (and Calvinism in particular) in order to make sense of “a profound and almost inhuman shame at the fate of being human” (2). Pecora's first chapter takes up this claim through a study...

... as in response to ongoing public debates over the regulation of weddings. By attending to the early marriage plot’s deep attachment to Christian, rural, and gentlemanly national ideals, I aim to show that the midcentury fictions that centered their narratives onA nglican wed- dings did so as part...

... to the revelation of a "heart of dark- ness" within supposedly civilized, Christian English souls. Even in texts that rationalize slaughtering the "mutineers," such as Lt. V. D. Majendie's Up Among the Pandies (1859), there is a revulsion against uncontrolled "vengeance" and bloodshed. Majendie exhibits...

... other moral principles. Given the social contingencies of that moral universe, any straight-and-narrow Christian teleology is shown to be chimerical if not bankrupt. In its ranging and unpredictable hybridity, in its urgency, in its embrace of trauma and uncertainty as a central trope...

...: A Biography . Oxford : Clarendon , 1971 . Gilbert Sandra Gubar Susan . The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination . New Haven : Yale UP , 2000 . Holm Christian . “Sentimental Cuts: Eighteenth-Century Mourning Jewelry with Hair...

... . Dennis , T. J. Akwukwọ Ogugu nke Izizi /Awukwoọ Ogugu nke Ibọa: Ibo Reader, I and II . London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1904 . Derrida , Jacques . Of Grammatology . Trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1976 . Echeruo , Michael J. C...