England's Secular Scripture: Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic

by Jo Carruthers, Emma Mason (Editor), Mark Knight (Editor)

Overview

This title seeks to trace English Islamophobia to its roots in England's Protestant past, and more specifically to its aesthetic and literary rooting in Protestant values.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826439130
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/13/2011
Series:	New Directions in Religion and Literature
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jo Carruthers is Research Council Academic Fellow at the University of Bristol, 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

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