Author: Morey, Ann-Janine
Title: Religion and Sexuality in American Literature
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, x,276 pp, Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, [57].. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Body Language: Religion, Sexuality & the Bioluminiscence of Metaphor; The Stubborn Density of Desire: Religion & Sexuality in 19th Century Fiction; A Tradition of Divine Lechery: Men Write About the Ministry; A War of Words: Women Write About the Ministry: The Homiletic Writers; Comfort to the Enemy: Women Write About the Ministry: The Parsonage Romance; The Fox in the Well: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Androcentric Imagination; Fatal Abstraction: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Gynocentric Imagination; Conclusion: Words Are Not the Thing Itself; Appendices. ["Through the voice of American fiction, Religion & Sexuality in American Fiction examines the relations of body & spirit (religion & sexuality) by asking two basic questions: How have American novelists handled the interaction between religious & sexual experience? Are there instructive similarities & differences in how male & female authors write about religion & sexuality? Using both canonical & noncanonical fiction, Ann-Janine Morey examines novels dealing with the ministry as the medium wherein so many of the tensions of religion & sexuality are dramatized, & then moves to contemporary novels that deal with moral & religious issues through metaphor. Based on a sophisticated & selective application of metaphor theory, deconstruction, & feminist postmodernism, Morey argues that while American fiction has replicated many traditional animosities, there are also some rather surprising resources here for commonality between men & women...." -Publisher's description]

Keywords: Literary Criticism, American Literature, Sex Sexuality, History, United States, Religion, , ,