Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel. By Pericles Lewis
Pericles Lewis begins his exploration of religious experience and the modernist novel by invoking two poets, Philip Larkin and Matthew Arnold. He argues that the predictions of these two poets about the erosion of faith bracket the period of literary modernism and that novelists as well as poets ‘so...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Literature and theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 226-227 |
| Review of: | Religious experience and the modernist novel (Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2010) (Anderson, Elizabeth)
Religious experience and the modernist novel (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010) (Anderson, Elizabeth) Religious experience and the modernist novel (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010) (Anderson, Elizabeth) Religious experience and the modernist novel (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010) (Anderson, Elizabeth) |
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| Summary: | Pericles Lewis begins his exploration of religious experience and the modernist novel by invoking two poets, Philip Larkin and Matthew Arnold. He argues that the predictions of these two poets about the erosion of faith bracket the period of literary modernism and that novelists as well as poets ‘sought to provide replacements for religion in the wake of a God whose announced withdrawal from this world never seemed to be quite complete’ (p. 1). The subject of Lewis’s study is the engagement of the major modernist novelists Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf with religious experience. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frr007 |