God and Self in the Confessional Novel

Zusatztext

<p></p><p><i>God and Self in the Confessional Novel </i>explores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel? Beginning with the premise that guilt remains a universal human concern, this book considers confession via the classic confessional texts of Augustine and Rousseau. Employing this framework, John D. Sykes, Jr. examines Goethe¿s <i>The Sorrows of Young Werther</i>, Dostoevsky¿s <i>Notes from Underground</i>, Percy¿s <i>Lancelot</i>, and McEwan¿s <i>Atonement</i> to investigate the evolution of confession and guilt in literature from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century.</p><p></p>

Autorenportrait

<p></p><p><b>John D. Sykes, Jr.</b> is the Mary and Harry Brown Professor of English and Religion at Wingate University, USA. He is the author of <i>Flannery O¿Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of Revelation </i>(2007) and has published widely in the field of theology and literature.</p><p></p>

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