On ‘The Problem of the Religious Novel’: Christopher Isherwood and A Single Man
Dating from his conversion to Vedanta in 1939, the writings of British expatriate Christopher Isherwood’s California period offer testimony of a life engaged with spiritual inquiry and praxis pursued over more than four decades, yet texts from this period are either ignored or dismissed by critics i...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Literature and theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 378-396 |
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| Summary: | Dating from his conversion to Vedanta in 1939, the writings of British expatriate Christopher Isherwood’s California period offer testimony of a life engaged with spiritual inquiry and praxis pursued over more than four decades, yet texts from this period are either ignored or dismissed by critics intent on maintaining the standard view of the writer. Isherwood theorised the writing of religion in his essay ‘The Problem of the Religious Novel’, yet it is in the least overtly religious text, A Single Man,1 where the influence of his training in the Ramakrishna Vedanta tradition is seamlessly integrated. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frq048 |