Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction: The Novel’s Liturgical Origins, Pursuit of Presence, and Pained Aesthetics
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Chapter 2
The Laity’s Triumph: Evolutions of Medieval Christology, Liturgy, and Lay Devotional Practice
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Chapter 3
The Wooden Pietà’s Use and Inspiration in Late Medieval Beguine Communities
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Chapter 4
Housing for “Excess”: Protestantism, Textuality, and the Novel’s Late Medieval Capacities in a Post-Reformation Cosmos
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Chapter 5
Humor and Inconclusiveness: The Modern Novel’s Experimental Origins and Hermeneutical Future
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Chapter 6
The Scandalous Divinity of “Madame Edwarda” and “My Mother”: Georges Bataille’s Atheist “Theology” of the Incarnation, Community, And Ethics
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Chapter 7
Thomas Hardy’s Phenomenology and Redemption for Michael Henchard Through the Victorian Feminine
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Chapter 8
The Short Story as Presence Encounter: Eden, the Aging Body, and the Suckled Breast in Maupassant and Steinbeck’s Literary Pietàs
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Chapter 9
Conclusion: The World Recreated: Lame Margareta of Magdeburg’s Experimental Theology and Ethics
Attention for Chapter 5:
Humor and Inconclusiveness: The Modern Novel’s Experimental Origins and Hermeneutical Future