England's Secular Scripture - Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic

Zusatztext Carruthers... [employs] to startling effect the critical apparatus of the merged disciplines of literature and theology. Informationen zum Autor Jo Carruthers is Research Council Academic Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. Klappentext By outlining Protestantism and Englishness in early-modern literature to the present-day! this study reveals how other religious identities can be alienated in British society. > Vorwort By outlining Protestantism and Englishness in early-modern literature to the present-day, this study reveals how other religious identities can be alienated in British society. Zusammenfassung By outlining Protestantism and Englishness in early-modern literature to the present-day, this study reveals how other religious identities can be alienated in British society. It seeks to trace English Islamophobia to its roots in England's Protestant past, and more specifically to its aesthetic and literary rooting in Protestant values. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements \ Series Editors' Preface \ Introduction \ 1. The English Reformation and the Protestant Aesthetic \ 2. Secularizing the Protestant Aesthetic: Wordsworth, Eliot and Hardy \ 3. Contemporary Englishness and the Protestant Aesthetic \ 4. The Protestant Aesthetic and Islamophobia \ Bibliography \ Index

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• Authors: Dr Jo (University of Lancaster Carruthers, Jo Carruthers
• Assisted by: Mark Knight (Editor), Emma Mason (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9780826433213
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-3321-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature; New Directions in Religion & L; New Directions in Religion and Literature; New Directions in Religion and; New Directions in Religion & L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies