The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Novel’s Liturgical Origins, Pursuit of Presence, and Pained Aesthetics

Chapter 2 The Laity’s Triumph: Evolutions of Medieval Christology, Liturgy, and Lay Devotional Practice

Chapter 3 The Wooden Pietà’s Use and Inspiration in Late Medieval Beguine Communities

Chapter 4 Housing for “Excess”: Protestantism, Textuality, and the Novel’s Late Medieval Capacities in a Post-Reformation Cosmos

Chapter 5 Humor and Inconclusiveness: The Modern Novel’s Experimental Origins and Hermeneutical Future

Chapter 6 The Scandalous Divinity of “Madame Edwarda” and “My Mother”: Georges Bataille’s Atheist “Theology” of the Incarnation, Community, And Ethics

Chapter 8 The Short Story as Presence Encounter: Eden, the Aging Body, and the Suckled Breast in Maupassant and Steinbeck’s Literary Pietàs

Chapter 9 Conclusion: The World Recreated: Lame Margareta of Magdeburg’s Experimental Theology and Ethics