The broken estate
Subtitle: essays on literature and belief
By: James Wood.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Religion and literature; Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Sir Thomas More: a man for one season; title: Jane Austen's heroic consciousness; title: The all and the if: God and metaphor in Melville; title: Half against Flaubert; title: Gogol's realism; title: What Chekhov meant by life; title: Knut Hamsun's Christian perversions; title: Virginia Woolf's mysticism; title: Thomas Mann the master of the not quite; title: D.H. Lawrence's occultism; title: T.S. Eliot's Christian anti-Semitism; title: George Steiner's unreal presence; title: Isis Murdoch's philosophy of fiction; title: Thomas Pynchon and the problem of allegory; title: Against paranoia: the case of Don DeLillo; title: John Updike's complacent God; title: The monk of fornication: Philip Roth's nihilism; title: Toni Morrison's false magic; title: Julian Barnes and the problem of knowing too much; title: W.G. Sebald's uncertainty; title: The broken estate: the legacy of Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold.