Oehlschlaeger Love and Good Reasons

Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8467-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten

This study seeks to articulate a particular moral, Christian vision and discover what it entails for reading texts; it tries to bring literary criticism and Christian ethics into discussion with one another.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oehlschlaeger, Fritz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Ethik, Moraltheologie, Sozialethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Literary Criticism and Christian Ethics in Service to One Another 9

2. Toward a Christian Ethics of Reading, or, Why We Cannot Be Done with Bartleby 49

3. The "Best Blessing of Existence”: "Conscious Worth” in Emma 83

4. Honor, Faithfulness, and Community in Anthony Trollope’s The Warden and He Knew What Was Right 126

5. The "Very Temple of Authorised Love”: Henry James and The Portrait of a Lady 169

6. A Light That Has Been There from the Beginning: Stephen Crane and the Gospel of John 212

Afterword: Postliberal Christian Scholarship: An Engagement with Rorty and Stout 251

Notes 271

Bibliography 297

Index 307

Über Autor(innen)

Fritz Oehlschlaeger is Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is coeditor of Toward the Making of Thoreau’s Modern Reputation, coauthor of Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and His Interpreters, and editor of Old Southwest Humor from the Saint Louis Reveille, 1844–1850.