... specific stylistic oddities. The narrative theories of Gerard Genette and Roland Barthes provide my reading with the vocabulary that allows me to establish and explicate the text's formal complexities—particularly its inconsistent use of tense—and interpret them in relation to the religious imperatives...

...Kevin Seidel By grappling with secular and religious approaches to Defoe's fiction, this essay describes the theory of fiction that Defoe writes his way toward during the course of his three-book Crusoe novel, which includes The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther...

... by shifting the central event of the novel to the murder as it relates to aspects of the novel's religious framework. It argues that Tess's actions are contingent on a critical phrase, “a shining light,” that has been suppressed through the novel's complicated publication history and reconnects sections...

... combination highlights a conflict between domestic and religious ideologies, which expected women and ministers to cultivate the morality of others, and English law, which denied them the legal authority and autonomy necessary to fulfill this obligation. Oliphant's novel thus demonstrates that women writers...

... Hobbes and John Locke; and the use of contemporary phenomenology on touch by Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Derrida. The resulting interpretation identifies Pamela as a “chiropractress” who resorts to the religious violence of the miracle in order to neutralize the patriarchal hand and obtain political...

... dossier by considering Conrad's images of frenzy as a representation of what religious anthropologists now call “possession trance.” This essay argues that Conrad's artistic insights into possession trance cannot simply be dismissed as a distorting image of Africa but emerge out of a carefully crafted...

... in A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) stands in refutation of Defoe's iconic portrayal of human isolation. Instead, I argue for affinities between Hume's secular skepticism and Crusoe's religious faith and suggest that both Defoe and Hume channel the same spiritual allegory of the pilgrim as shipwrecked...

... religious-political currents, I argue that the novel's marriage plot emerged as both a cultural agent of the Erastian state and an expression of a highly labile, conservative, patriot opposition. It did so, therefore, as an English marriage plot which placed Anglican ritual and relations between vicars...

... and coercive force they see their views carrying. McEwan's work finds the forms of this immodesty not just in religious or political ideals but in science, criticism, and secularism, the latter perhaps the more concerning because they conceal their immodesty in the allegedly modest forms of “neutrality...

...Philip Gould [email protected] Ashley Reed , Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America ( Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2020 ), pp. 276 , paper, $19.95 . Copyright © 2022 by Novel, Inc. 2022 In this valuable study...

... from religious books, until the end of the eighteenth century. In the preceding period, they were “available in the same bookshops and libraries, on the same tables and shelves, printed in equivalent size formats with similar lengths, and sold for comparable prices” (125). Secularization happened...

... to queer to posthuman, Steve Pinkerton in Blasphemous Modernism proposes a revision through the lenses of religion. In so doing, he contributes to the current “religious turn” in literary studies, spearheaded by scholars such as Pericles Lewis, Stanley Fish, and J. Hillis Miller. In their wake, Pinkerton...

... of Chicago P , 1994 . Chappell David L. “Religious Ideas of the Segregationists.” Journal of American Studies 32 ( 1998 ): 237 – 62 . Deresiewicz William . “Homing Patterns: Marilynne Robinson's Fiction.” Nation 13 Oct. 2008 : 25 – 30 . Douglas Christopher...

... shows how the correspondence with Strakhov exhibits the two literary forms that are intermixed in Rousseau's text: the confession of sins and the profession of a personal faith. While in Rousseau's “Profession” and Confessions the story of religious confession and conversion is transformed...

... that has recently come through a religiously inflected election (during which it was shown that the correct response for a candidate to make to an ad falsely attacking him or her as an atheist is not to argue that such a thing shouldn’t matter but rather to assert that he or she is not just...

... a particular development within this process of the seculariza- tion of explanations for and defense of human difference in which the novel par- ticipated. While the concept of prejudice plays a crucial role in Locke’s epistemol- ogy, it seems to be generally absent from his writings on religious toleration...

... a religious past, and the Hegelian notion of secularization as a gradual translation or Aufhebung of religious truth into secular philosophy and ethics, a position Pecora aligns with Jürgen Habermas. Against both of these definitions of secularization, Pecora proposes the notion of Verwindung (borrowed...

... and Religious Controversy in England, 1680–1750 ( Toronto : U of Toronto P , 2010 ), pp. 304 , cloth, $65.00 . Reviews Protestantism and Its Discontents allison conway, The Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy...

... was the project of moral tutelage claimed by the writers of religious tracts for the poor. In Our Mutual Friend (1864-65), Dickens attacks the premises of didactic religious fiction for children, describing the kinds of stories read by Charley Hexam in a London Ragged School: Young women old...

... intrusion of modernity, or between oppressive patriarchy and a feminist, liberatory impulse-major themes of postcolonial fiction. Rather, the conflict in The Translafor is between worldly desires and spiritual discipline- an internal struggle that is an important theme in religious literature...