...George S. Lensing The Return of Christian Humanism: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, and the Romance of History , by Oser Lee , Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 2007 . 190 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Review Seeking Christian Humanism The Return...

...: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Oser Lee . 2007 . The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Pojman Louis Lewis Vaughn , eds. 2010 . The Moral Life...

... Oser identifies the critical reflex to humanize Beckett, and may even be said to embody this in a recuperative move concerning the “spiritual longing” defining Beckett’s pessimism, whereby the “assault” on a normative or recognizable ethics becomes itself an expression of the centrality of the ethical...

... and renunciation of his influence to a later (begrudging) acceptance of Whitman’s importance in American literature. For Eliot’s disavowals of Whitman, also see Lee Oser, who describes Eliot’s “long and byzantine reception to Whitman” and points out that in Eliot’s criticism—particularly in the 1926 essay “Whitman...

... of the Ethical: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory .” In Ethics, Literature, Theory: An Introductory Reader , edited by George Stephen K. Booth Wayne C. , 99 – 106 . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield . Oser Lee . 2007 . The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf...

... Zimmerman for his editorial suggestions and to John Mahoney, Leslie Brisman, and “The Pardoners” (Lee Oser, Jeffrey Shoulson, Matthew Greenfield, and Ian Baucom), with whom I first discussed the ideas in this paper many years ago. 490 Stevie Smith’s Seditious Romanticism Thanks also...