Beschreibung:
"Fritz Oehlschlaeger's postliberal approach offers a potential way beyond the impasse of the bifurcation of conservative and liberal in the cultural wars of contemporary literary criticism without asking participants to relinquish their deeply held ethical convictions."--Brian D. Ingraffia, author of "Postmodern Theory and Biblical Theology: Vanquishing God's Shadow"
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Literary Criticism and Christian Ethics in Service to One Another 92. Toward a Christian Ethics of Reading, or, Why We Cannot Be Done with Bartleby 493. The "Best Blessing of Existence”: "Conscious Worth” in Emma 834. Honor, Faithfulness, and Community in Anthony Trollope’s The Warden and He Knew What Was Right 1265. The "Very Temple of Authorised Love”: Henry James and The Portrait of a Lady 1696. A Light That Has Been There from the Beginning: Stephen Crane and the Gospel of John 212Afterword: Postliberal Christian Scholarship: An Engagement with Rorty and Stout 251Notes 271Bibliography 297Index 307