Puritanism and modernist novels : from moral character to the ethical self

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Puritanism and modernist novels : from moral character to the ethical self

Title remainder

from moral character to the ethical self

Statement of responsibility

Lynne W. Hinojosa

Creator

• Hinojosa, Lynne W., 1966-

Subject

• Christianity and literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Englisch
• English fiction
• English fiction -- History and criticism
• English fiction -- Irish authors
• English fiction -- Irish authors | History and criticism
• Great Britain
• Identität
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Moderne
• Modernism (Literature)
• Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
• Puritan movements in literature
• Puritan movements in literature
• RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
• Religiosität
• Roman
• Christianity and literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"In Puritanism and Modernist Novels: From Moral Character to the Ethical Self, Lynne W. Hinojosa complicates traditional interpretations of the novel and literary modernism as secular developments of modernity by arguing that the British novel tradition is fundamentally shaped by Puritan hermeneutics and Bible-reading practices. This tradition, however, simultaneously works to dismantle the categories associated with social morality and moral character, helping to form "Puritanism" into a fictional stereotype. Hinojosa demonstrates that the novel thus perpetuates a narrative that associates Puritanism with moral and religious confinement, on the one hand, and modern longing with escape, on the other-even as it remains tied to Puritan views of history and the self. Puritanism and Modernist Novels offers new formal and contextual readings of early modernist novels by Oscar Wilde, E. M. Forster, James Joyce, and Ford Madox Ford. Hinojosa demonstrates that, while they long for escape, these authors still question the value of the novelistic narrative of confinement and escape. Bridging modernist and novel studies, Puritanism and Modernist Novels contributes to conversations about secularization and religion in both fields, highlighting the limitations created by the secularization narrative of modernity. "--

Member of

• Literature, religion, and postsecular studies

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.91209112

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PR478.M6

LC item number

H56 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Literature, religion, and postsecular studies