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Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can help readers receive the burdens of history and develop a more robust conception of and concrete practice of hope.
List of contents
Chapter One: Hope, History, and Historical Novels: Postmodern, Marxist, Christian
Chapter Two: Frank Kermode, Jürgen Moltmann, and Three Modern Derivatives of Christian Hope
Chapter Three: Postmodern Historical Novels: Idealistic and Ironic Hopes
Chapter Four: Marxist Historical Novels: Utopic Hope
Chapter Five: Moltmann on Eschatological Historiography and the Modern Church
Chapter Six: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead Series: Historical Novels for a Disburdened Church
About the author
Lynne W. Hinojosa is Associate Professor of Literature in the Honors Program at Baylor University. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame (2003). In addition to essays in journals such as Literature and Theology, Religion and Literature, and the Journal of Modern Literature, she has published two scholarly monographs: The Renaissance, English Cultural Nationalism, and Modernism, 1860-1920 (Palgrave, 2009), and Puritanism and Modernist Novels: From Moral Character to the Ethical Self (The Ohio State University Press, 2015).
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Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can help readers receive the burdens of history and develop a more robust conception of and concrete practice of hope.
