The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman...
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The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction. It examines how Richard Dawkins's so-called New Atheism' movement has caught the imagination of four eminent modern novelists: Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman. For McEwan and his contemporaries, the contemporary novel represents a new front in the ideological war against religion, religious fundamentalism and, after 9/11, religious terror: the novel apparently stands for everything freedom, individuality, rationality and even a secular experience of the transcendental that religion
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-132) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Preface; Introduction: The New Atheist Novel; Chapter One: Ian McEwan's End of the World Blues; Chapter Two: Martin Amis and the War for Cliché; Chapter Three: Philip Pullman's Republic of Heaven; Chapter Four: Salman Rushdie and the Quarrel over God; Conclusion: The Post-Atheist Novel; Notes; Bibliography; Index
