The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel / by Rachel A. Kent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kent, Rachel A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval.

European literature.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

Fiction.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Medieval Literature.

European Literature.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

Fiction Literature.

Literary History.

Local Subjects:

Medieval Literature.

European Literature.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

Fiction Literature.

Literary History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dramatically refreshing the age-old debate about the novel's origins and purpose, Kent traces the origin of the modern novel to a late medieval fascination with the wounded, and often eroticized, body of Christ. A wide range of texts help to illustrate this discovery, ranging from medieval 'Pietàs' to Thomas Hardy to contemporary literary theory.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction: The Novel's Liturgical Origins, Pursuit of Presence, and Pained Aesthetics

1. The Laity's Triumph: Evolutions of Medieval Christology, Liturgy, and Lay Devotional Practice

2. The Wooden Pietá's Use and Inspiration in Late Medieval Beguine Communities

3. Housing for "Excess": Protestantism, Textuality, and the Novel's Late Medieval Capacities in a Post-Reformation Cosmos

4. Humor and Inconclusiveness: The Modern Novel's Experimental Origins and Hermeneutical Future

5. The Scandalous Divinity of "Madame Edwarda" and "My Mother": Georges Bataille's Atheist "theology" of the Incarnation, Community, and Ethics

6. Thomas Hardy's Phenomenology and Redemption for Michael Henchard through the Victorian Feminine

7. The Short Story as Presence Encounter: Eden, the Aging Body, and the Suckled Breast in Maupassant and Steinbeck's Literary Pietás

Conclusion: The World Recreated: Lame Margareta of Magdeburg's Experimental Theology and Ethics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137522917

1137522917