The Religious Horizon of Olivia Manning's Fortunes of War Novels

The conflict between Guy Pringle’s Marxism and the liberal individualism of his wife Harriet is central to Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. Manning explores the condition of literal and spiritual homelessness produced by the Second World War within a variety of cultural, political...

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Main Author: Perkin, J. Russell (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2025, Volume: 74, Issue: 3, Pages: 347-363
Further subjects:B Balkan Trilogy
B Levant Trilogy
B Fortunes of War
B Olivia Manning
B Second World War literature
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Summary:The conflict between Guy Pringle’s Marxism and the liberal individualism of his wife Harriet is central to Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. Manning explores the condition of literal and spiritual homelessness produced by the Second World War within a variety of cultural, political, and religious contexts. The trilogies are not religious in a doctrinal sense, but the search for spiritual meaning is an important aspect of their representation of wartime.
ISSN:2056-5666
Contains:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/chy.2025.a970793