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
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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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Literary Criticism and Christian Ethics in Service to One Another; 2. Toward a Christian Ethics of Reading, or, Why We Cannot Be Done with Bartleby; 3. The ""Best Blessing of Existence"": ""Conscious Worth"" in Emma; 4. Honor, Faithfulness, and Community in Anthony Trollope's The Warden and He Knew He Was Right; 5. The ""Very Temple of Authorised Love"": Henry James and The Portrait of a Lady; 6. A Light That Has Been There from the Beginning: Stephen Crane and the Gospel of John
Afterword: Postliberal Christian Scholarship: An Engagement with Rorty and StoutNotes; Bibliography; Index