Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature. By Tracy Fessenden
Before the last decade's acceleration of critical and theoretical interventions, religion was hardly a hot topic of conversation in U.S. literary and cultural studies. As recently as 1995, Jenny Franchot warned fellow Americanists that their field of inquiry ‘risks, in its conspicuous lack of i...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Literature and theology
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 446-448 |
| Review of: | Culture and Redemption (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006) (Hamner, Everett)
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| Summary: | Before the last decade's acceleration of critical and theoretical interventions, religion was hardly a hot topic of conversation in U.S. literary and cultural studies. As recently as 1995, Jenny Franchot warned fellow Americanists that their field of inquiry ‘risks, in its conspicuous lack of interest in religion, becoming a fundamentalism of its own’ (‘Invisible Domain: Religion and American Literary Studies’, American Literature 67(4) (December 1995), 835). That landscape is changing, though. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frm045 |