Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction: 'The hint half guessed, the gift half understood' Essaying the Via Media: John Dryden's Religio Laici and Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man ' A grander scheme of salvation than the christian religion': John Keats, a New Religion of Love, and the Hoodwinking of 'The Eve of St. Agnes' George Eliot's Layman's Faith: The Lyrical Essay-Novel Adam Bede Priests of Eternal Imagination: Literature and Religion The Instance of James Joyce and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Journey towards Understanding: T.S. Eliot and the Progress of the 'Intelligent Believer' 'Religious Feeling without Religious Images': E.B. White's Essays Religio Criticae: An Essay on Reception and Response
Synopsis
This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern.