Communion of Radicals : The Literary Christian Left in Twentieth-Century America /

"Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or god-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist thought and creative work that challenges both camps. In 'Communion of radicals,' Jonathan McGregor offers the first history of writers who...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: McGregor, Jonathan (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Social justice in literature.
Christians > Intellectual life.
American literature > Christian authors.
American literature.
Justice sociale dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Chretiens > États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > Histoire.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs chretiens > Histoire et critique.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Christians > United States > Intellectual life > History.
American literature > Christian authors > History and criticism.
United States.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Defining a literary Christian left: four traditions of dissent
  • A queer orthodoxy: monasticism and sexuality in U.S. Anglo-Catholic socialism
  • Constantine's "historical mistake": religion and the state in T.S. Elliot and W.H. Auden
  • The mystical body in crisis: the Catholic Worker Movement and the challenge of pluralism
  • "Back to Christ! Back to the land!": the theological and political meaning of southern agrarianism
  • From southern tragedy to divine comedy: the Committee of Southern Churchmen radicalize the southern heritage
  • New England's "permanent of rebellion": Catholic Socialism in the American grain
  • Weird Christian socialism: the literary Christian left between liberalism and antiliberalism.

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