Misfits and marble fauns
Subtitle: religion and romance in Hawthorne and O'Connor
By: Wendy Piper
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Macon, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780881462173
Subjects: Religion; Criticism and interpretation; American Love stories; Religion in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Outside observers: Hawthorne's artists and idealists; title: Puritans and modern methodism; title: Romance as bildung: self-transformation in The marble faun; title: O'Connor as "realist of distances": romance, prophecy, and the modern mind; title: Giving flight to "wingless chickens": art as the "added dimension"; title: The hubris of the sacred self: mystery, tragedy, and the Christian vision.