England's secular scripture : Islamophobia and the Protestant aesthetic / / Jo Carruthers
Pubbl/distr/stampa
London, : Continuum, 2011
ISBN
9786613274328
9780826439376
0826439373
9781283274326
1283274329
9781441142757
1441142754
Edizione
[1st ed.]
Descrizione fisica
1 online resource (161 p.)
Collana
New directions in religion and literature
Disciplina
820.9382
305.6970941
Soggetti
Religion and literature - England
Religion and culture - England
Protestantism - England
Islamophobia - England
Lingua di pubblicazione
Inglese
Formato
Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico
Monografia
Note generali
Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE THE ENGLISH REFORMATION AND THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER TWO SECULARIZING THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER THREE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISHNESS AND THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER FOUR THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC AND ISLAMOPHOBIA; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Sommario/riassunto
England's Secular Scripture 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. Carruthers argues that English antagonism towards Islam lies in part in the formation of English identities in early modern Reformation Protestantism. The book traces
the transposing, and secularizing, of Reformation doctrines into a 'Protestant aesthetic'; of simplicity, individualism, and rationalism in the literature of Spenser and Milton. Wordsworth, Hardy, Eliot and Orwell, among others, perpetuate this