Beyond the Religious and the Secular in the History of the Novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4776219 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Seidel (0000-0003-1115-223X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 637-647 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2008.0000 |
| OpenAlex | W2034409135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Making the relationship between the religious and the secular a special object of inquiry represents less a new way of thinking about the role of religion in literary studies, as Michael W. Kaufmann contends, than a return to the status quo. This essay articulates that status quo by examining recent work on the history of the novel in English in light of Vincent Pecora's book Secularization and Cultural Criticism. Next, it contrasts Pecora's approach to Talal Asad's in Formations of the Secular. Finally, the essay briefly describes some of the terrain between the religious and the secular in the novel that Asad leaves unexplored in his criticism
Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Object (grammar) · Political science · Secular education · Secularization · Sociology · Status quo · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2015 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |