Is There a Context for Gilead? Reading The Handmaid's Tale and Lila under the Christian Right

Studies of literature and the Christian Right, like most studies of literature and religion, tend to operate under what Joseph North has recently called the "historicist/contextualist" paradigm of literary study. Departing from that consensus, this essay examines two novels germane to the...

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Main Author: Horton, Ray (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2020]
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2020, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-35
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
CG Christianity and Politics
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBQ North America
Further subjects:B Christian Right
B Literary Criticism
B Marilynne Robinson
B Margaret Atwood
B postcritique
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