Literary Paths to Religious Understanding

1. Introduction “The hint half guessed, the gift half understood”
G. Douglas Atkins

2. Essaying the Via Media: John Dryden’s Religio Laici and Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man

G. Douglas Atkins

3. “A grander scheme of salvation than the chryst<e>ain religion”: John Keats, a New Religion of Love, and the Hoodwinking of “The Eve of St. Agnes”
G. Douglas Atkins

4. George Eliot’s “Layman’s Faith”: The Lyrical Essay-Novel Adam Bede

G. Douglas Atkins

5. Priests of Eternal Imagination: Literature and Religion—The Instance of James Joyce and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

G. Douglas Atkins

6. Journey toward Understanding: T.S. Eliot and the Progress of the “Intelligent Believer”
G. Douglas Atkins

7. “Religious feeling without religious images”: E.B. White’s Essays and the Poetics of Participation
G. Douglas Atkins

8. Religio Criticae: An Essay on Reception and Response
G. Douglas Atkins

Nyckelord: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Literary History, Linguistics, general, Philosophy of Religion