England's secular scripture : Islamophobia and the Protestant aesthetic / Jo Carruthers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carruthers, Jo.

Series:

New directions in religion and literature.

New directions in religion and literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and literature--England.

Religion and literature.

Religion and culture--England.

Religion and culture.

Protestantism--England.

Protestantism.

Islamophobia--England.

Islamophobia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

England's Secular Scripture seeks to trace English Islamophobia to its roots in England's Protestant past, and more specifically to its aesthetic and literary rooting in Protestant values. Carruthers argues that English antagonism towards Islam lies in part in the formation of English identities in early modern Reformation Protestantism. The book traces the transposing, and secularizing, of Reformation doctrines into a 'Protestant aesthetic'; of simplicity, individualism, and rationalism in the literature of Spenser and Milton. Wordsworth, Hardy, Eliot and Orwell, among others, perpetuate this

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE THE ENGLISH REFORMATION AND THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER TWO SECULARIZING THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER THREE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISHNESS AND THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER FOUR THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC AND ISLAMOPHOBIA; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613274328

9780826439376

0826439373

9781283274326

1283274329

9781441142757

1441142754

OCLC:

754582257