Anglican Women Novelists: from Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 3089
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- T & T Clark
- ISBN
- 978-0-5676-6585-0
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This volume of essays explores the fiction of a range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century female British novelists in terms of their Anglicanism and their Anglicanism in terms of their fiction. Scholarly assessments of the genres of Anglican anthology and confessional scholarship have not previously engaged with fiction, or with female writers. The editors believe this to be the first such study of its kind, deploying Anglicanism and gender as categories of analysis. Maltby’s own paper on Rose Macaulay shed original light on the way that novelist’s antagonistic relationship with Evelyn Waugh shaped her fictional presentation of Anglicanism . A substantial research endeavour underpins this article, which was supported by a Fellowship at the Virginia Theological Seminary in the US. It draws on unpublished sources in Cambridge, Durham and the British Library, the New York Public Library and particularly the Henry Ransom Centre at the University of Texas. Maltby also co-authored the Introduction, where she explores, among other things, the importance of understanding the place of Anglican Christianity in the literary work this group of authors, covering multiple genres, such as historical, social comedy, children’s, and detective fiction. Maltby’s own writing or co-writing constitutes about 18% of the volume. She was also the intellectual originator of the project, first enlisting her co-editor and then collaborating closely with her to determine the scope and the subject authors, only then approaching contributors to undertake chapters on particular writers. The result is a highly interdisciplinary volume, drawing on the disciplines of theology, history and literary criticism. The author edited all contributions, working closely with her co-editor and contributors to ensure intellectual coherence to the volume as a whole.
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