Literary Paths to Religious Understanding

This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion. From the minor seventeenth-century English tradition of layman's faiths, Atkins moves seamlessly through a wide range of post-Reformation writers, encountering and sometimes confronting institutional Christianity. Fresh, engaging discussions of John Dryden and Alexander Pope's work engender insightful, new readings of John Keats, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot's, and E.B. White's work. Atkins eschews linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern.

G. Douglas Atkins is Professor of English at the University of Kansas, winner of several awards for distinguished teaching, and the author of more than a dozen books, including Estranging the Familiar (a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year).

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Prefatory Essay	p. xi
Introduction: "The hint half guessed, the gift half understood"	p. 1
Essaying the Via Media: John Dryden's Religio Laici and Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man	p. 15
"A grander scheme of salvation than the chrystain religion": John Keats, a New Religion of Love, and the Hoodwinking of "The Eve of St. Agnes"	p. 43
George Eliot's "Layman's Faith": The Lyrical Essay-Novel Adam Bede	p. 59
Priests of Eternal Imagination: Literature and Religion-The Instance of James Joyce and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	p. 79
Journey toward Understanding: T.S. Eliot and the Progress of the "Intelligent Believer"	p. 109
"Religious feeling without religious images": E.B. White's Essays and the Poetics of Participation	p. 125
Religio Criticae: An Essay on Reception and Response	p. 145
Notes	p. 153
Bibliography	p. 163
Index	p. 167
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Literary Paths to Religious Understanding Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White

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