Anglican women novelists : Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James / edited by Judith Maltby and Alison Shell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maltby, Judith D., editor.

Shell, Alison, editor.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of England--In literature.

Church of England.

Church of England--Influence.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

English fiction--Anglican authors--History and criticism.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Literature.

Anglican authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : Why Anglican ; why women ; why novelists? / Judith Maltby and Alison Shell

Charlotte Brontë (1816-55) : an Anglican imagination / Sara L. Pearson

Charlotte Maria Tucker, 'A.L.O.E.' (1821-93) : Anglican evangelicalism and national identity / Nancy Jiwon Cho

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) : opening doors of interpretation / Alison Milbank

Charlotte M. Yonge (1823-1901) : writing for the church / Charlotte Mitchell

Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) : mysticism in fiction / Ann Loades

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) : God and the detective / Jessica Martin

Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) : Anglican apologist? / Judith Maltby

Barbara Pym (1913-80) : Anglican anthropologies / Jane Williams

Elizabeth Goudge (1900-84) : clergymen and masculinity / Susan D. Asmussen

Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986) : vicarage and other families / Clemence Schultze

Iris Murdoch (1919-99) : Anglican atheist / Peter S. Hawkins

Monica Furlong (1930-2003) : 'with love to the church' / Peter Sherlock

P. D. James (1920-2014) : 'Lighten our darkness" / Alison Shell

Afterword / Francis Spufford

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index.

ISBN:

9780567686763

0567686760

9780567665850

0567665852

OCLC:

1105850658