Thomas J Ferraro

Transgression & Redemption in American Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

A critical study of classic American novels, Transgression and Redemption explores Catholicism in The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, The Professor's House, The Awakening, and The Sun Also Rises.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780198863052
• ISBN-10: 0198863055
• Artikelnr.: 60169563

Autorenporträt

Thomas J. Ferraro is Professor of English at Duke University. He writes on literature, film, and the performing arts, and is the author of Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America (NYU, 2005), Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in 20th-Century America (University of Chicago Press, 1993), the editor of Catholic Lives, Contemporary America (Duke University Press, 1997), and a contributor to The Columbia History of the American Novel, Scribner's Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Towards a Marian-Catholic Pedagogy of Classic American
Novels
* 1: Had there been a Papist: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
* 2: Of Lascivious Mysticism and Other Hibernian Matters : Frederic''s
The Damnation of Theron Ware
* 3: Vouchsafed by the Holy Ghost: Chopin's The Awakening
* 4: Densher's Crucifixion--or A Beautiful, Beneficent Dishonesty?:
James' The Wings of the Dove
* 5: Our Lady of Art: Cather's "Coming Aphrodite"!
* 6: The Carrawat Confessional: Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
* 7: No Forgiveness in Heaven, No Forgetting in Hell: Cather's The
Professor's House
* 8: Feast of Our Lady of Desire, Resplendent: Hemingway's The Sun Also
Rises
* 9: Coda