The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture
Eight Novelists write about their Craft and their Context

Distributed for University of Wales Press
161 pages
|
5 1/2 x 8 1/2
- Contents
Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
List of contributors
1 Introduction: the novel and the spiritual journey today
Paul S. Fiddes
Part I Analyses
2 The spirit and writing in a secular world
Donna Tartt
3 The blizzard of circumstance: writing and moral discovery
Jill Paton Walsh
4 The dark night of the novel in an age of weak faith
David McLaurin
5 Religious experience and the novel: a problem of genre and culture
Sara Maitland
Part II Witnesses
6 ‘Telling the old, old story’: God and the novelist as creators
Catherine Fox
7 A Question of Integrity: stories and the meaning of wholeness
Susan Howatch
8 ‘Christian fiction’ in American society: a defence of a despised genre
T. Davis Bunn
9 The novel and the safe journey of healing
William Horwood
Index
For more information, or to order this book, please visit https://press.uchicago.edu
Google preview here
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores. Outside the USA, see our international sales information.