Religion and Sexuality in American Literature

Klappentext Ann-Janine Morey examines novels dealing with the ministry as the medium wherein so many of the tensions of religion and sexuality are dramatised. Zusammenfassung Through the voice of American fiction! Religion and Sexuality in American Literature examines the relations of body and spirit (religion and sexuality). Ann-Janine Morey examines novels dealing with the ministry as the medium wherein so many of the tensions of religion and sexuality are dramatised. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Body language: religion, sexuality and the bioluminescence of metaphor; 2. The stubborn density of desire: religion and sexuality in nineteenth-century fiction; 3. A tradition of divine lechery: men write about the ministry; 4. A war of words: women write about the ministry; 5. Comfort to the enemy: women write about the ministry; 6. The fox in the well: metaphors of embodiment in the androcentric imagination; 7. Fatal abstractions: metaphors of embodiment in the gynocentric imagination; 8. Conclusion: words are not the thing itself; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Ann-Janine Morey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521103763
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10376-3
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies