The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel [electronic resource] /
Kent, Rachel A.author.
Dramatically refreshing the age-old debate about the novel's origins and purpose, Kent traces the origin of the modern novel to a late medieval fascination with the wounded, and often eroticized, body of Christ. A wide range of texts help to illustrate this discovery, ranging from medieval 'Pietàs' to Thomas Hardy to contemporary literary theory.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: The Novel's Liturgical Origins, Pursuit of Presence, and Pained Aesthetics -- 1. The Laity's Triumph: Evolutions of Medieval Christology, Liturgy, and Lay Devotional Practice -- 2. The Wooden Pietá's Use and Inspiration in Late Medieval Beguine Communities -- 3. Housing for "Excess": Protestantism, Textuality, and the Novel's Late Medieval Capacities in a Post-Reformation Cosmos -- 4. Humor and Inconclusiveness: The Modern Novel's Experimental Origins and Hermeneutical Future -- 5. The Scandalous Divinity of "Madame Edwarda" and "My Mother": Georges Bataille's Atheist "theology" of the Incarnation, Community, and Ethics -- 6. Thomas Hardy's Phenomenology and Redemption for Michael Henchard through the Victorian Feminine -- 7. The Short Story as Presence Encounter: Eden, the Aging Body, and the Suckled Breast in Maupassant and Steinbeck's Literary Pietás -- Conclusion: The World Recreated: Lame Margareta of Magdeburg's Experimental Theology and Ethics.
Dramatically refreshing the age-old debate about the novel's origins and purpose, Kent traces the origin of the modern novel to a late medieval fascination with the wounded, and often eroticized, body of Christ. A wide range of texts help to illustrate this discovery, ranging from medieval 'Pietàs' to Thomas Hardy to contemporary literary theory.
Literature, Medieval.
British literature.
Literature, Modern.
Fiction.
Literature-History and criticism.
European literature.
Medieval Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Fiction.
Literary History.
European Literature.