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Anglican Women Novelists
From Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James
Anglican Women Novelists
From Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James
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What do the novelists Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte M. Yonge, Rose Macaulay, Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara Pym, Iris Murdoch and P.D. James all have in common? These women, and others, were inspired to write fiction through their relationship with the Church of England. This field-defining collection of essays explores Anglicanism through their fiction and their fiction through their Anglicanism.
These essays, by a set of distinguished contributors, cover a range of literary genres, from life-writing and whodunnits through social comedy, children's books and supernatural fiction. Spanning writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, they testify both to the developments in Anglicanism over the past two centuries and the changing roles of women within the Church of England and wider society.
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Why Anglican, why Women, why Novelists? – Judith Maltby, Corpus Christi University, University of Oxford, UK, and Alison Shell, University College London, UK
1. Charlotte Brontë (1816-55): An Anglican Imagination – Sara L. Pearson, Trinity Western University, Canada
2. Charlotte Maria Tucker, 'A.L.O.E.' (1821-93): Anglican Evangelicalism and National Identity – Nancy Jiwon Cho, Seoul National University, South Korea
3. Margaret Oliphant (1828-97): Opening Doors of Interpretation – Alison Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK
4. Charlotte M. Yonge (1823-1901): Writing for the Church – Charlotte Mitchell, University College London, UK
5. Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941): Mysticism in Fiction – Ann Loades, St Andrews University, UK
6. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957): God and the Detective – Jessica Martin, Ely Cathedral, UK
7. Rose Macaulay (1881-1958): Anglican Apologist? – Judith Maltby, Corpus Christi University, University of Oxford, UK
8. Barbara Pym (1913-80): Anglican Anthropologies – Jane Williams, St Mellitus College, St Mellitus College
9. Elizabeth Goudge (1900-84): Clergymen and Masculinity – Susan D. Amussen, University of California, USA
10. Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986): Vicarage and other Families – Clemence Schultze, Durham University, UK
11. Iris Murdoch (1919-99): Anglican Atheist – Peter S. Hawkins, Yale Divinity School, USA
12. Monica Furlong (1930-2003): 'With Love to the Church' – Peter Sherlock, University of Divinity, Australia
13. P.D. James (1920-2014): 'Lighten our Darkness' – Alison Shell, University College London, UK
Afterword - Francis Spufford, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Product details
| Published | 27 Jun 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9780567665874 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Illustrations | 13 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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