England's secular scripture : Islamophobia and the Protestant aesthetic / / Jo Carruthers
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| Autore: |
Carruthers Jo
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| Titolo: |
England's secular scripture : Islamophobia and the Protestant aesthetic / / Jo Carruthers
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Continuum, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9382 |
| 305.6970941 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Religion and literature - England |
| Religion and culture - England | |
| Protestantism - England | |
| Islamophobia - England | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | England's secular scripture |
| ISBN: | 0-8264-3937-3 |
| 1-283-27432-9 | |
| 9786613274328 | |
| 1-4411-4275-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820900703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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New directions in religion and literature.