RT Article
T1 Is There a Context for Gilead? Reading The Handmaid's Tale and Lila under the Christian Right
JF Christianity & literature
VO 69
IS 1
SP 15
OP 35
A1 Horton, Ray
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1693493608
AB 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 study of the Christian Right—Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Marilynne Robinson's Lila—not to demonstrate their embeddedness in historical context, but to illustrate how their narratives imagine reading, belief, and perception in ways that reassert the value of literary criticism at a time when the Christian Right has attained unprecedented political power.
K1 Christian Right
K1 Margaret Atwood
K1 Marilynne Robinson
K1 Literary Criticism
K1 postcritique
DO 10.1353/chy.2020.0001