Title: Literary epiphany in the novel, 1850-1950 : constellations of the soul /
Authors: Kim, Sharon, 1969-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2012
Subjects: English fiction History and criticism; English fiction History and criticism; Epiphanies in literature.; American fiction History and criticism; American fiction; English fiction; Epiphanies in literature.; LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 English.; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers English.; Literary studies: from c 1900 English.; Literature.
Abstract: A study of literary epiphany, whose varying constructions of spirituality are crucial to the shaping of character in the British and American novel.
Contents: Opening the Subject: Joyce and Heidegger on Epiphany -- The Promise of Being: Spiritual Epiphany in The Wide, Wide World -- Reverse Projection: Moral Epiphany in Middlemarch -- The Dark Flash: Epiphany and Heredity in The House of Mirth -- The Mirror of Mental Ruin in To the Lighthouse -- The Look of the Other in The Bear.