ANGLICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS
Maltbyalison Shell Judith
Oprawa:
TWARDA
Wydawca:
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
9780567665850
Opis produktu
Judith Maltby is Chaplain and Fellow of Corpus Christi College Oxford and Reader in Church History in the University of Oxford.Alison Shell is Professor of English at University College London. Formerly Professor of English at Durham she now runs UCL English Departments MA in English: Shakespeare in History. She is an editor and critic reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement the Church Times and a number of academic journals. Principal works include: Catholicism Controversy and the English Literary Imagination 15581660 (1999) Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England (2007) and Shakespeare And Religion (2011).Provides a muchneeded counterpart to the wealth of research on the influence of the Catholic faith on writers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesPresents a focus on the ways Anglicanism and the Anglican church influenced the writing of a range of prominent and significant women writersThe examination of various different women writers in relation to their Anglican faith reveals interesting insights into the development and diminishment of the Anglican church in the past two centuriesJudith Maltby is Chaplain and Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Reader in Church History in the University of Oxford UK. As well as publishing widely on the history of Anglicanism she is an occasional commentator on religion on BBC Radio 4 and The Guardian (20042011).Alison Shell is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London UK. She has published widely on the relationship of Christianity and literature in Britain between the Reformation and the 21st century.What do the novelists Charlotte Brontź Charlotte M. Yonge Rose Macaulay Dorothy L. Sayers Barbara Pym Iris Murdoch and P.D. James all have in common? These women and others were inspired to write fiction through their relationship with the Church of England. This fielddefining collection of essays explores Anglicanism through their fiction and their fiction through their Anglicanism. These essays by a set of distinguished contributors cover a range of literary genres from lifewriting and whodunnits through social comedy childrens books and supernatural fiction. Spanning writers from the nineteenth to the twentyfirst century they testify both to the developments in Anglicanism over the past two centuries and the changing roles of women within the Church of England and wider society.The Anglican Church has had a massive impact on a number of woman novelists. This illuminating study explores the range of ways and extent to which Anglicanism has inspired literary creations in the past centuries.List of illustrationsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Why Anglican Why Women Why Novelists? Judith Maltby Corpus Christi University University of Oxford UK and Alison Shell University College London UK1. Charlotte Brontź (181655): An Anglican Imagination Sara L. Pearson Trinity Western University CanWymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 590 gr
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