TY - BOOK

T1 - England's Secular Scripture

T2 - Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic

AU - Carruthers, Jo

PY - 2011/8

Y1 - 2011/8

N2 - This book interrogates the relations between Reformation ideas of plain style, the coupling of simplicity with a hermeneutic transparency (as expressed in simple Englishness in Victorian and early twentieth-century literature), and the visceral aversion to the non-simple expressed in Islamophobia in contemporary England. Chapters: 1. The English Reformation: Spenser, Milton and the Protestant Aesthetic 2. Secularizing the Protestant Aesthetic: Wordsworth, Eliot and Hardy 3. Contemporary Englishness and the Protestant Aesthetic 4. English Dispositions and Islamophobia

AB - This book interrogates the relations between Reformation ideas of plain style, the coupling of simplicity with a hermeneutic transparency (as expressed in simple Englishness in Victorian and early twentieth-century literature), and the visceral aversion to the non-simple expressed in Islamophobia in contemporary England. Chapters: 1. The English Reformation: Spenser, Milton and the Protestant Aesthetic 2. Secularizing the Protestant Aesthetic: Wordsworth, Eliot and Hardy 3. Contemporary Englishness and the Protestant Aesthetic 4. English Dispositions and Islamophobia

KW - Englishness, simplicity, Islamophobia, Protestantism

M3 - Book

SN - 9780826433213

T3 - New Directions in Religion and Literature

BT - England's Secular Scripture

PB - Continuum

CY - London

ER -