Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index.
Contents:
Afterword / Francis Spufford Alison Shell -- Charlotte Brontèˆ (1816-55) : an Anglican imagination / Sara L. Pearson -- Charlotte Maria Tucker, 'A.L.O.E.' (1821-93) : Anglican evangelicalism and national identity / Nancy Jiwon Cho -- Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) : opening doors of interpretation / Alison Milbank -- Charlotte M. Yonge (1823-1901) : writing for the church / Charlotte Mitchell -- Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) : mysticism in fiction / Ann Loades -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) : God and the detective / Jessica Martin -- Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) : Anglican apologist? / Judith Maltby -- Barbara Pym (1913-80) : Anglican anthropologies / Jane Williams -- Elizabeth Goudge (1900-84) : clergymen and masculinity / Susan D. Asmussen -- Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986) : vicarage and other families / Clemence Schultze -- Iris Murdoch (1919-99) : Anglican atheist / Peter S. Hawkins -- Monica Furlong (1930-2003) : 'with love to the church' / Peter Sherlock -- P. D. James (1920-2014) : 'Lighten our darkness" / Alison Shell -- Afterword / Francis Spufford
Summary:
What do the novelists Charlotte Brontèˆ, 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.
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