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The English Modernist Novel As Political Theology : Challenging the Nation / Charles Andrews.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andrews, Charles (College teacher), author.
- Series:
- New directions in religion and literature.
- New Directions in Religion and Literature Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics in literature.
- Civil religion--Great Britain.
- Civil religion.
- Nationalism in literature.
- English fiction--Great Britain--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English literature--Political aspects.
- English literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Exploring novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology-works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fueled and supported the First World War - this book shows how we can gain valuable insights from their works for anti-militarist, anti-statist, and anti-nationalist efforts today. Andrews demonstrates the many ways that these novelists issue a challenge to the problems with civil religion and the sacralized nation state and, in so doing, offer alternative visions to coordinate our inner lives with our public and collective actions"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Challenging the "Christian Nation"
- 1 Virginia Woolf and Political Liturgies for the Unredeemed: Jacob's Room
- 2 D. H. Lawrence's Political Eschatology: Apocalypse and Lady Chatterley's Lover
- 3 Evelyn Waugh's Cynical Political Theology: Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies
- 4 Sylvia Townsend Warner's Queer Anarchist Theology: Lolly Willowes
- Coda: Living the Theopolitical Imagination
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781350362055
- 1350362050
- 9781350362048
- 1350362042
- OCLC:
- 1407316287
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