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Literary Secularism : Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction
ISBN: 9781443802697
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

Literary Secularism: Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction shows the path to secularization in the modern novel in comparative perspective. Writers as diverse as George Eliot, James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, Taslima Nasrin, and James Wood, have all struggled with religious orthodoxy in their personal lives, and are some of the most important and representative secular writers in the modern world canon. But their novels, which are far more than mere anti-religious man...