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New Scholarship on Religion and Literature, 2000-2012 (November 2013): Works Cited

By Miriam Elizabeth Burstein

Works Cited

Achinstein, Sharon.  Literature and Dissent in Milton’s England.  Cambridge, 2003 (CH, Jan’04, 41-2646).

Adams, Kimberly VanEsveld.  Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot.  Ohio University, 2001 (CH, Nov’01, 39-1381).

Adelman, Janet.  Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in The Merchant of Venice.  Chicago, 2008.

Ainsworth, David.  Milton and the Spiritual Reader: Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England.  Routledge, 2008.

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.  Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450.  Cornell, 2009 (CH, Jan’10, 47-2717).

Ashton, Gail.  The Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiography: Speaking the Saint.  Routledge, 2000.

Avalos, Hector.  Strangers in Our Own Land: Religion in Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Literature.  Abingdon Press, 2005.

Bale, Anthony.  The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350-1500.  Cambridge, 2006.

Bar-Yosef, Eitan.  The Holy Land in English Culture, 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism.  Oxford, 2005.

Barbour, Reid.  Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeeth-Century England.  Cambridge, 2011.

Bassard, Katherine Clay.  Transforming Scriptures: African-American Women Writers and the Bible.  Georgia, 2010 (CH, Sep’10, 48-0112).

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature, ed. by Rebecca Lemon et al.  Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 (CH, Jan’10, 47-2428).

Boyarin, Adrienne Williams.  Miracles of the Virgin in Medieval England: Law and Jewishness in Marian Legends.  D.S. Brewer, 2010 (CH, May’11, 48-4868).

Branch, Lori.  Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth.  Baylor, 2006 (CH, May’07, 44-4900).

Brantley, Jessica.  Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England.  Chicago, 2007.

British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature, ed. by Sheila A. Spector.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Brooks, Joanna.  American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures.  Oxford, 2003 (CH, Mar’04, 41-3896).

Bross, Kristina.  Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America.  Cornell, 2004.

Bryan, Jennifer.  Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England.  Pennsylvania, 2008 (CH, Aug’08, 45-6608).

Callahan, Allen Dwight.  The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible.  Yale, 2006 (CH, Mar’07, 44-3814).

Carpenter, Mary Wilson.  Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market.  Ohio University, 2003 (CH, May’04, 41-5241).

Colón, Susan E.  Victorian Parables.  Continuum International Publishing Group, 2012 (CH, Feb’13, 50-3111).

Cummings, Brian.  The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace.  Oxford, 2002.

Darroch, Fiona.  Memory and Myth: Postcolonial Religion in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry.  Rodopi, 2009.

Davies, Michael.  Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan.  Oxford, 2002.

Davison, Carol Margaret.  Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 (CH, Jan’05, 42-2652).

Donnelly, Phillip J.  Milton’s Scriptural Reasoning: Narrative and Protestant Toleration.  Cambridge, 2009.

Einbinder, Susan L.  Beautiful Death:  Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France.  Princeton, 2002 (CH, Feb’03, 40-3291).

Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature, ed. by Mary Reichardt.  2v.  Greenwood, 2004 (CH, May’05, 42-4966).

Fenton, Elizabeth.  Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture.  Oxford, 2011.

Fessenden, Tracy.  Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature.  Princeton, 2007 (CH, Jun’07, 44-5490).

Fetterer, Luke.  Towards a Christian Literary Theory.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Finkelman, Yoel.  Strictly Kosher Reading: Popular Literature and the Condition of Contemporary Orthodoxy.  Academic Studies, 2011.

Fisher, Devon.  Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature: Conservatism, Liberalism, and the Emergence of Secular Culture.  Ashgate, 2012.

Franklin, J. Jeffrey.  The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire.  Cornell, 2008 (CH, Jul’09, 46-6044).

Frykholm, Amy Johnson.  Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America.  Oxford, 2004 (CH, Dec’04, 42-2158).

Gandolfo, Anita.  Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today.  Praeger, 2007 (CH, Feb’08, 45-3067).

Goodblatt, Chanita.  The Christian Hebraism of John Donne: Written with the Fingers of Man’s Hand.  Duquesne, 2010 (CH, Nov’10, 48-1321).

Gray, F. Elizabeth.  Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women’s Poetry.  Routledge, 2010.

Greenblatt, Stephen.  Hamlet in Purgatory.  Princeton, 2001 (CH, Jul’01, 38-6029).

Gribben, Crawford.  Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America.  Oxford, 2009 (CH, Jul’09, 46-6047).

Griffin, Susan M.  Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.  Cambridge, 2004 (CH, Jan’05, 42-2656).

Griffiths, Richard.  The Pen and the Cross: Catholicism and English Literature 1850-2000.  Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010.

Groves, Beatrice.  Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604.  Oxford, 2007 (CH, Sep’07, 45-0144).

Guibbory, Achsah.  Christian Identity: Jews and Israel in Seventeenth-Century England.  Oxford, 2010 (CH, Aug’11, 48-6756).

Hamrick, Stephen.  The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 1558-1582.  Ashgate, 2009.

Hassel, R. Chris, Jr.  Shakespeare’s Religious Language: A Dictionary.  Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007.

Hillier, Russell M.  Milton’s Messiah: The Son of God in the Works of John Milton.  Oxford, 2011.

Hungerford, Amy.  Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960.  Princeton, 2010.

Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory, ed. by Cassandra Falke.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Jackson, Gregory S.  The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism.  Chicago, 2009 (CH, Aug’09, 46-6664).

Jager, Colin.  The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era.  Pennsylvania, 2007.

Jeffrey, David Lyle, and Gregory Maillet.  Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice.  IVP Academic, 2011.

The Jews and British Romanticism: Politics, Religion, Culture, ed. by Sheila A. Spector.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 (CH, Oct’05, 43-0797).

Jones, Norman W.  Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction: Sexual Mystery and Post-Secular Narrative.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Kaufman, Heidi.  English Origins, Jewish Discourse, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Reflections on a Nested Nation.  Pennsylvania State, 2009.

Kearney, James.  The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England.  Pennsylvania, 2009 (CH, Jan’10, 47-2449).

Kneidel, Gregory.  Rethinking the Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Literature: The Poetics of All Believers.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Knight, Mark.  An Introduction to Religion and Literature.  Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009 (CH, Sep’09, 47-0064).

Knight, Mark, and Emma Mason.  Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction.  Oxford, 2006.

Krummel, Miramne Ara.  Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Kuchar, Gary.  Divine Subjection: The Rhetoric of Sacramental Devotion in Early Modern England.  Duquesne, 2005.

LaMonaca, Maria.  Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home.  Ohio State, 2008 (CH, Nov’08, 46-1340).

Lampert, Lisa.  Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare.  Pennsylvania, 2004 (CH, Oct’04, 42-0802).

LaPorte, Charles.  Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible.  Virginia, 2011 (CH, Apr’12, 49-4317).

Lavezzo, Kathy.  Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534.  Cornell, 2006.

Lewis, Pericles.  Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel.  Cambridge, 2010 (CH, Nov’10, 48-1296).

Lieb, Michael.  Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse, and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon.  Duquesne, 2006 (CH, Oct’06, 44-0808).

Literature and Theology: New Interdisciplinary Spaces, ed. by Heather Walton.  Ashgate, 2011.

Loewenstein, David.  Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism.  Cambridge, 2001.

Lomax, Elaine.  The Writings of Hesba Stretton: Reclaiming the Outcast.  Ashgate, 2009.

Longfellow, Erica.  Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England.  Cambridge, 2004.

Lupton, Julia Reinhard.  Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology.  Chicago, 2005 (CH, Nov’05, 43-1422).

Lynch, Kathleen.  Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century Anglophone World.  Oxford, 2012.

McClure, John A.  Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison.  Georgia, 2007 (CH, Oct’08, 46-0752).

McDowell, Nicholas.  The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion, and Revolution, 1630-1660.  Oxford, 2007.

Moran, Maureen.  Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature.  Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Murray, Molly.  The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature: Verse and Change from Donne to Dryden.  Cambridge, 2009.

Neal, Lynn S.  Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction.  North Carolina, 2006 (CH, Oct’06, 44-0885).

O’Malley, Patrick.  Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture.  Cambridge, 2006.

Oulton, Carolyn W. de la L.  Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 (CH, Jun’03, 40-5674).

The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology, ed. by Andrew Hass, David Jasper, and Elizabeth Jay.  Oxford, 2007 (CH, Jan’08, 45-2561).

Page, Judith W.  Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British Romantic Literature and Culture.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Palazzo, Lynda.  Christina Rossetti’s Feminist Theology.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 (CH, Jan’03, 40-2659).

Patterson, Mary Hampson.  Domesticating the Reformation: Protestant Best Sellers, Private Devotion, and the Revolution of English Piety.  Fairleigh Dickinson, 2007.

Perkin, J. Russell.  Theology and the Victorian Novel.  McGill-Queen’s, 2009.

Peschier, Diana.  Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses: The Case of Charlotte Brontë.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 (CH, Mar’06, 43-3906).

Raymond, Joad.  Milton’s Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination.  Oxford, 2010 (CH, Dec’10, 48-1929).

Roe, Dinah.  Christina Rossetti’s Faithful Imagination: The Devotional Poetry and Prose.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 (CH, Aug’07, 44-6724).

Romanticism/Judaica: A Convergence of Cultures, ed. by Sheila Spector.  Ashgate, 2011.

Romero, Channette.  Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color.  Virginia, 2012.

Rubel, Nora L.  Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish-American Imagination.  Columbia, 2010.

Rubin, Miri.  Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary.  Yale, 2009. (CH, Sep’09, 47-0222).

Ryan, Judylyn S.  Spirituality as Ideology in Black Women’s Film and Literature.  Virginia, 2005.

Samuels, Maurice.  Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France.  Stanford, 2010 (CH, Jul’10, 47-6133).

Scheinberg, Cynthia.  Women’s Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture.  Cambridge, 2002 (CH, May’03, 40-5097).

Schmitt, Jean-Claude.  The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century, tr. by Alex J. Novikoff.  Pennsylvania, 2010 (CH, Jan’11, 48-2918).

Shell, Alison.  Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England.  Cambridge, 2008 (CH, Nov’08, 46-1351).

____.  Shakespeare and Religion.  Arden Shakespeare, 2010.

Shoulson, Jeffrey.  Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity.  Columbia, 2001.

Shuck, Glenn W.  Marks of the Beast: The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity.  New York University, 2005 (CH, Apr’05, 42-4609).

Stevens, Laura M.  The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility.  Pennsylvania, 2004 (CH, Jun’05, 42-6079).

Streete, Adrian.  Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England.  Cambridge, 2009 (CH, May’10, 47-4897).

Styler, Rebecca.  Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century.  Ashgate, 2010.

Sudlow, Brian.  Catholic Literature and Secularisation in France and England, 1880-1914.  Manchester University Press, 2011.

Targoff, Ramie.  Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England.  Chicago, 2001.

Tate, Andrew.  Contemporary Fiction and Christianity.  Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010.

Tischler, Nancy M.  Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Fiction: From C. S. Lewis to Left Behind.  Greenwood, 2009.

Tomko, Michael.  British Romanticism and the Catholic Question: Religion, History, and National Identity, 1778-1829.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Walker, Greg.  Writing under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation.  Oxford, 2005 (CH, May’06, 43-5149).

Waller, Gary.  The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture.  Cambridge, 2011 (CH, Nov’11, 49-1341).

Werth, Tiffany Jo.  The Fabulous Dark Cloister: Romance in England after the Reformation.  Johns Hopkins, 2011 (CH, May’12, 49-4939).

Wheeler, Michael.  St. John and the Victorians.  Cambridge, 2012 (CH, Aug’12, 49-6664).

White, Laura Mooneyham.  Jane Austen’s Anglicanism.  Ashgate, 2011 (CH, Sep’11, 49-0151).

Wirth-Nesher, Hana.  Call It English: The Languages of Jewish-American Literature.  Princeton, 2006 (CH, May’07, 44-4931).

Wyss, Hilary E.  Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America.  Massachusetts, 2003.

Yeager, Suzanne.  Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative.  Cambridge, 2011.

Ziolkowski, Theodore.  Modes of Faith: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief.  Chicago, 2007 (CH, Mar’08 45-3744).

Zlatar, Antoinina Bevan.  Reformation Fictions