'Not Something I'd Ever Dream of Dying for': Religious Identity and Belonging in Antonia Forest's Marlow Novels
The theme of religious belief occurs with increasing frequency and depth across Antonia Forest's books and is central to the development of several main characters, including Nicola, Ann and Patrick. In this article, I focus particularly on three novels, The Thuggery Affair (1965), The Attic Te...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2016]
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Literature and theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 148-163 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture |
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| Summary: | The theme of religious belief occurs with increasing frequency and depth across Antonia Forest's books and is central to the development of several main characters, including Nicola, Ann and Patrick. In this article, I focus particularly on three novels, The Thuggery Affair (1965), The Attic Term (1976) and Run Away Home (1982), and suggest that Forest's treatment of religion therein testifies to her belief that teenagers are well able to deal with emotional complexities bound up with adherence to and rejection of religious belief, practice and identity. Her characters exhibit a specifically theological adeptness which is almost unparalleled in contemporaneous novels for children, chiming far more closely with works of an earlier age. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frw010 |