Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-15536-4 (ISBN)
Postmodern, Marxist, and Christian Historical Novels: Hope and the Burdens of History argues historical novels can help readers receive the burdens of history—meaning both the burdens of the past, present, and future and the burden of living in time—and develop a more robust conception of and concrete practice of hope. Since the 1960s, historical novels have been a dominant literary genre, but they have been influenced primarily not by Christian but by postmodern and marxist thinkers and writers. This book provides a theological and literary analysis of all three types of historical novels—postmodern, marxist, and Christian—and outlines what each school of thought can learn from each other regarding historical understanding and hope. Using Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of hope and Frank Kermode’s literary criticism as a theoretical basis, the book offers readings of novels by Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Ian McEwan, and Ursula LeGuin, among others, and ends with an extended analysis of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series.
Lynne W. Hinojosa is Associate Professor of Literature in the Honors Program at Baylor University. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame (2003). In addition to essays in journals such as Literature and Theology, Religion and Literature, and the Journal of Modern Literature, she has published two scholarly monographs: The Renaissance, English Cultural Nationalism, and Modernism, 1860-1920 (Palgrave, 2009), and Puritanism and Modernist Novels: From Moral Character to the Ethical Self (The Ohio State University Press, 2015).
Chapter One: Hope, History, and Historical Novels: Postmodern, Marxist, Christian
Chapter Two: Frank Kermode, Jürgen Moltmann, and Three Modern Derivatives of Christian Hope
Chapter Three: Postmodern Historical Novels: Idealistic and Ironic Hopes
Chapter Four: Marxist Historical Novels: Utopic Hope
Chapter Five: Moltmann on Eschatological Historiography and the Modern Church
Chapter Six: Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead Series: Historical Novels for a Disburdened Church
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.06.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-15536-1 / 1032155361 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-15536-4 / 9781032155364 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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