Christianity and Literature articles from January 2006

Christianity and Literature archives from January 2006

From the editors.(2005 Modern Language Association Convention)(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... At the 2005 Modern Language Association Convention this past December in Washington, D.C, numerous papers were presented that focused on the religious dimensions of literature. In her own conference address, Julia Kristeva observed a...

Mark Twain's new Jerusalem: prophecy in the unpublished essay "About Cities in the Sun".
January 1, 2006... But it would be rather awful if the general recognition of [Twain's] prophetic function should implicate the renunciation of the humor that has endeared him to mankind. William Dean Howells (351) For I testify unto every man that...

"The eternal now": Virgilian echoes and Miltonic premonitions in Cowley's Davideis.(Abraham Cowley)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Abraham Cowley's Davideis, the four-book epic fragment based on the life of the young David before he became King of Judah, has been recognized as the first neoclassical sacred epic in English (Dykstal 95; Greene 366). Thomas Sprat, Cowley's...

An Adoration.(Poem)
January 1, 2006... An Adoration Because his wife is a dream he's working to wake from. Because the sun brightens and expands this passing hour At their breakfast table, and because the husband Never asks himself what he is looking for but...

Spurring an imitative will: the canonization of Arthur Hallam.
January 1, 2006... T. S. Eliot observes of Tennyson's In Memoriam that "its faith is a poor thing, but its doubt is a very intense experience" (200-201). Earlier in the same essay, he compares the poem to "the concentrated diary of a man confessing himself"...

Saving the monsters? Images of redemption in the gothic tales of George MacDonald.
January 1, 2006... George MacDonald is known to most readers for his children's stories; to a smaller number for his Christian mythopoeia, Phantastes and Lilith; to a smaller number still for his novels, sermons, and poetry. But few are aware of his several...

Dangling.(Poem)
January 1, 2006... Dangling When I believe I have no needs I cannot fulfill, When my lies sound like truth, And when I've added yet another self To my fabrications, I contemplate the life of a monk On Mt. Athos who ties one end ...

Dante for the New Millennium.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Dante for the New Millennium. By Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne Storey, eds. Fordham Series in Medieval Studies, No. 2. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. ISBN 08232227 [hardcover]. Pp. 477. $65. ISBN: 0823222721 [paper]. Pp. 477. $28....

Shakespeare's Religious Language: A Dictionary.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Shakespeare's Religious Language: A Dictionary. By R. Chris Hassel. Althone Shakespeare Dictionary Series. London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. ISBN 0826458904. Pp. ix + 455. $300. Anyone writing a major, authoritative new reference work on...

The Reformation: A History.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Reformation: A History. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. New York: Viking Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0670032964. Pp. 800. $34.95 [hardcover]. ISBN 0143035384. Pp. 864. $18 [paper]. When every new book is blurbed as a tour de force a "stunning...

Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. By Susan M. Griffin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0521833930. Pp. 284. $75. In recent years, religious issues have increasingly informed critical approaches to...

Auden and Christianity.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Auden and Christianity. By Arthur Kirsch. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0300108141. Pp. xxi + 207. $30. Why did W. H. Auden, one of modernity's shrewdest intellects, revert to the liturgy and belief of his...

The Tendering Presence: Essays on John Woolman.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Tendering Presence: Essays on John Woolman. In Honor of Sterling Olmstead and Phillips P. Moulton. Edited by Mike Heller. Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 2003. ISBN 0-87574-940-2. Pp. xviii+340. $21.00. This collection of...

The Ethics of Life Writing.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Ethics of Life Writing. Edited by Paul John Eakin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8014-4128-5, 0-8014-833-8. Pp. viii + 228. $47.50, 18.95. The recent media brouhaha over exaggerations and fabrications in James Frey's...

News and announcements.
January 1, 2006... The 2006 Southeast CCL Regional Conference, Christian Witness in a World of Clashing Cultures," will be at Anderson College in Anderson, South Carolina, from April 6-8. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Wesley Kort, chair of the Department of...