Anglican women novelists : Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James

Author(s)

• Maltby, Judith
• Shell, Alison

Bibliographic Information

Anglican women novelists : Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James

edited by Judith Maltby and Alison Shell

T&T Clark, 2019

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references, bibliography and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

What do the novelists Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte M. Yonge, Rose Macaulay, Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara Pym, Iris Murdoch and P.D. James all have in common? These women, and others, were inspired to write fiction through their relationship with the Church of England. This field-defining collection of essays explores Anglicanism through their fiction and their fiction through their Anglicanism. These essays, by a set of distinguished contributors, cover a range of literary genres, from life-writing and whodunnits through social comedy, children's books and supernatural fiction. Spanning writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, they testify both to the developments in Anglicanism over the past two centuries and the changing roles of women within the Church of England and wider society.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations Abbreviations List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Why Anglican, why Women, why Novelists? - Judith Maltby, Corpus Christi University, University of Oxford, UK, and Alison Shell, University College London, UK 1. Charlotte Bronte (1816-55): An Anglican Imagination - Sara L. Pearson, Trinity Western University, Canada 2. Charlotte Maria Tucker, 'A.L.O.E.' (1821-93): Anglican Evangelicalism and National Identity - Nancy Jiwon Cho, Seoul National University, South Korea 3. Margaret Oliphant (1828-97): Opening Doors of Interpretation - Alison Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK 4. Charlotte M. Yonge (1823-1901): Writing for the Church - Charlotte Mitchell, University College London, UK 5. Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941): Mysticism in Fiction - Ann Loades, St Andrews University, UK 6. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957): God and the Detective - Jessica Martin, Ely Cathedral, UK 7. Rose Macaulay (1881-1958): Anglican Apologist? - Judith Maltby, Corpus Christi University, University of Oxford, UK 8. Barbara Pym (1913-80): Anglican Anthropologies - Jane Williams, St Mellitus College, St Mellitus College 9. Elizabeth Goudge (1900-84): Clergymen and Masculinity - Susan D. Amussen, University of California, USA 10. Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986): Vicarage and other Families - Clemence Schultze, Durham University, UK 11. Iris Murdoch (1919-99): Anglican Atheist - Peter S. Hawkins, Yale Divinity School, USA 12. Monica Furlong (1930-2003): 'With Love to the Church' - Peter Sherlock, University of Divinity, Australia 13. P.D. James (1920-2014): 'Lighten our Darkness' - Alison Shell, University College London, UK Afterword - Francis Spufford, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

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Details

• NCID: BB31412488
• ISBN:
  • 9780567686763
• LCCN: 2019007733
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 274 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR117
  • DC23 : 823/.009382
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English fiction -- Anglican authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Church of England -- In literature
  • LCSH : Church of England -- Influence