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Literary histories of the novel tend to assume that religion naturally gives way to secularism, with the novel usurping the Bible after the Enlightenment. This book challenges that teleological conception of literary history by focusing on scenes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century fiction where the Bible appears as a physical object. Situating those scenes in wider circuits of biblical criticism, Bible printing, and devotional reading, Seidel cogently demonstrates that such scenes reveal a great deal about the artistic ambitions of the novels themselves and point to the different ways those novels reconfigured their readers' relationships to the secular world. With insightful readings of the appearance of the Bible as a physical object in fiction by John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Scott, Frances Sheridan, and Laurence Sterne, this book contends that the English novel rises with the English Bible, not after it.

Bible --- Secularism in literature. --- English fiction --- In literature. --- History and criticism. --- English literature

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Modernist thinkers once presumed a progressive secularity, with the novel replacing religious texts as society's moral epics. Yet religion-beginning with the Iranian revolution of 1979, through the collapse of communism, and culminating in the singular rupture of September 11, 2001- has not retreated quietly out of sight.In Fiction Beyond Secularism,Justin Neuman argues that contemporary novelists who are most commonly identified as antireligious-among them Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Haruki Murakami, and J. M. Coetzee-have defied assumptions and have instead written some of the most trenchant critiques of secular ideologies, as well as the most exciting and rigorous inquiries into the legacies of the religious imagination. As a result, many readers (or nonreaders) on either side of the religious divide neglect the insights of works likeThe Satanic Verses, Disgrace,and Snow. Fiction Beyond Secularismserves as a timely corrective.--

Postsecularism. --- Religion in literature. --- Secularism in literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism.

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Silencing the Sea follows Palestinian poets' debates about their craft as they traverse multiple and competing realities of secularism and religion, expulsion and occupation, art, politics, immortality, death, fame, and obscurity. Khaled Furani takes his reader down ancient roads and across military checkpoints to join the poets' worlds and engage with the rhythms of their lifelong journeys in Islamic and Arabic history, language, and verse. This excursion offers newfound understandings of how today's secular age goes far beyond doctrine, to inhabit our very senses, imbuing all tha

Arabic poetry --- Poetics. --- Secularism in literature. --- Poetry --- History and criticism. --- Technique --- Thematology --- Arabic literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Palestine

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Der Band fragt nach der historischen Signatur literarischer Säkularisierungsphänomene zwischen dem 11. und 15. Jahrhundert, nach einer 'Säkularisierung vor der Säkularisierung' also, in der die begriffsprägenden Oppositionen transzendent-immanent, heilig-profan, geistlich-weltlich noch nicht neuzeitlich gegeneinander ausdifferenziert sind. In exemplarischen Analysen wird entfaltet, wie sich Ästhetisches und Religiöses in der Literatur des Mittelalters überschneiden, aber auch voneinander abgrenzen. Im Fokus stehen textuelle (narrative, figurative, spiritualitätsgeschichtlich oder politisch relevante) Säkularisierungsstrategien in unterschiedlichsten Textgattungen. Den Beiträgen gelingt es, die gegenwärtigen Debatten zum Thema "Literarische Säkularisierung" historisch neu zu perspektivieren.

German literature --- Secularization --- Secularism in literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Appropriation and impropriation --- Impropriation --- Church and state --- History and criticism --- History --- Law and legislation --- Narration. --- aesthetics. --- religion. --- sacralization. --- secularization.

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This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of "sacred" and "secular" phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. Following an introduction that examines methodological questions in the study of the sacred and the secular, the other essays treat (among other topics): Old English poetry, troubadour lyrics, twelfth-century romance, the Gregorian Reform, Middle English lyrics and the work of the Pearl-poet, Luther, and Shakespeare. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.

Christianity in literature. --- Church and state --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Holy, The, in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- Secularism in literature. --- History --- History and criticism.