England's Secular Scripture: Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic - Couverture souple

Carruthers, Jo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826433219 ISBN 13 : 9780826433213

Editeur : Continuum, 2011

Synopsis

England's Secular Scripture seeks to trace Englishness to its roots in England's Protestant past, and more specifically to its aesthetic and literary rooting in Protestant values. Carruthers argues that the formation of English identities in early modern Reformation Protestantism influences English antagonism towards foreign identities, especially evident against Muslims. The book traces the transposing, and secularizing, of Reformation doctrines into a 'Protestant aesthetic' of simplicity, individualism, and rationalism in the literature of Spenser and Milton. Wordsworth, Hardy, Eliot and Orwell, among others, perpetuate this aesthetic, one that continues to shape English mythologies up to the present day. Carruthers sheds light on contemporary Islamophobia, helping us to understand that Englishness is not merely a secular identity (combating what is seen as an irrational fundamentalist identity), but one informed, paradoxically, by Protestant logic and history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jo Carruthers is Research Council Academic Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826433219
• ISBN 13: 9780826433213
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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