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Religion and American Literature Since 1950

Religion and American Literature Since 1950

Paperback

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1350243213
ISBN13: 9781350243217
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Oct 21 2021
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
From Flannery O'Connor and James Baldwin to the post-9/11 writings of Don DeLillo, imaginative writers have often been the most insightful chroniclers of the USA's changing religious life since the end of World War II. Exploring a wide range of writers from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and secular faiths, this book is an in-depth study of contemporary fiction's engagement with religious belief, identity and practice. Through readings of major writers of our time like Saul Bellow, E. L. Doctorow, Philip Roth, Marilynne Robinson and John Updike, Mark Eaton discovers a more nuanced picture of the varieties of American religious experience: that they are more commonplace than cultural ideas of progressive secularisation or faith-based polarization might suggest.

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