TY - BOOK AU - Singh,Amardeep TI - Literary secularism: religion and modernity in twentieth-century fiction SN - 9781443802697 (electronic bk.) AV - PN3503 .S56 2006 U1 - 809.933820904 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Newcastle PB - Cambridge Scholars Press KW - Fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Religion and literature KW - Secularism in literature KW - Säkularisierung KW - swd KW - Religion KW - Roman KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The critical tradition and the modern novel: from Daniel Dafoe to James Wood -- George Eliot: British secularism, Jewish assimilation and Daniel Deronda -- Holy water, fluid mondernity: Rabindranath Tagore and Hindu reform -- Diasporas and promised lands: Ireland, Israel, and Joyce's Ulysses -- The elusive ideal of secular writing: V.S. Naipaul and literary secularism in India -- The ambiguous relationship between men and angels: Salman Rushdie's daemonic secularism -- The myriad failures of religious law: the uniform civil code debate and Indian feminism -- Literary secularism after 9/11: Philip Roth's The plot against America and Orhan Pamuk's Snow UR - http://www.myilibrary.com?id=204297 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/id/10644513 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=523871 ER -