A World Abandoned by God: Narrative and Secularism
by Susanna Lee
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The idea of God, in one form or another, is a fundamental part of human experience - a given, almost. And yet, for over one hundred and fifty years, we have lived in a world become increasingly secular. The goal of this book is to reconcile these facts, or rather to examine their interaction and, in so doing, to understand the idea and the experience of secularism. Concentrating on five canonical French and Russian novels of the nineteenth century (Stendahl's The Red and the Black, Gustave show more Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Ivan Turgenev's A Nest of Gentry, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Bewitched, and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Demons) and using the instruments of narrative theory, this book offers a groundbreaking critical foundation for understanding both the evolution of secular culture and the new role of the individual in modern ethical, political, and spiritual contexts. show lessTags
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Susanna Lee is from Del Mar, California. She attended college at the University of Minnesota and at Yale, and received her PhD in French Literature from Yale. She is currently assistant professor in the French department at Georgetown University, where she teaches nineteenth-century literature and literary theory. She has written on the show more nineteenth-century novel and on American crime fiction, music and literature, and psychoanalysis. She lives in Washington, DC. show less
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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- 843.709382 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French fiction Constitutional monarchy 1815–48
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- PQ653 .L44 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Prose and prose fiction
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