Rabbit (Un)Redeemed - The Drama of Belief in John UpdikeOs Fiction

Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Drama of Belief in John Updikes Fiction offers a selective reading of this prolific authors oeuvre, concentrating on Updikes career-spanning reoccupation with issues of faith and doubt. In Baileys reading, at the heart of Updike's work is the tension between affirming the continuance of the 'heady wine of religious consolation' and the deepening anxiety that the best that humanity can hope for is 'the bleak fare of more endurance.' Focusing on a trio of Olinger stories, the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy, In the beauty of the Lilies, and Rabbit Remembered, Bailey locates the dialectical situation at the center of Updike's literary career in his conflicted sense of himself as a Christian novelist and Howellsian realist.

About the author

Peter J. Bailey is Professor of English at St. Lawrence University.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Bailey, Peter J Bailey, Peter J. Bailey
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781611472998
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-299-8
• No. of pages: 295
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 168 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 570 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies