England's Secular Scripture: Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic

by Jo Carruthers

Overview

By outlining Protestantism and Englishness in early-modern literature to the present-day, this study reveals how other religious identities can be alienated in British society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826439376
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/11/2011
Series:	New Directions in Religion and Literature
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	372 KB

About the Author

Jo Carruthers is Research Council Academic Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK.
Jo Carruthers is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancaster, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements\Series Editors' Preface\Introduction\1. The English Reformation and the Protestant Aesthetic\2. Secularizing the Protestant Aesthetic: Wordsworth, Eliot and Hardy\3. Contemporary Englishness and the Protestant Aesthetic\4. The Protestant Aesthetic and Islamophobia\Bibliography\Index

Editorial Reviews

Books like this perform an invaluable function by explaining the emergence of…misconceptions, thus hopefully preparing the ground for their obsolescence.” —Studies in English Literature, Vol. 53, No. 1

From the Publisher