Autumn 1999, Vol. 49, No. 1
Articles
Praying Bodies, Spectacular Martyrs, and the Virile Sisterhood: “Salutary and Useful Confusions” in Josephine Butler’s Catherine of Siena
JANET L. LARSON 3
On Cleaning House in Georges Bernano’s Journal d’un cure de campagne
KEITH A. PALKA 35
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple: Redefining God and (Re)Claiming the Spirit Within
JEANNINE THYREEN 49
Dialogue
Origins of Narrative: A Reply to Melvyn New
STEPHEN PRICKETT 67
Is “No Poetics” a Good Poetics?: A Response to Melvyn New
DANIEL E. RITCHIE 75
Christianity and Romanticism: A Reply
ROBERT M. RYAN 81
Review Essays
“Invisible Domains” and the Theological Turn in Recent American Literary Studies
HAROLD K. BUSH, JR. 91
New Perspective on American Rhetoric of Conversion
JANE DONAHUE EBERWEIN 111
Book Reviews
Douglas A. Templeton, The New Testament as True Fiction: Literature, Literary Criticism, Aesthetics
LLOYD G. DAVIES 127
John C. Hawley, ed., Christian Encounters with the Other
PHILIP C. RULE, S.J. 130
Sabine MacCormack, The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine
DAVID J. LEIGH, S.J. 131
Cynthia Lewis, Particular Saints: Shakespeare’s Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their Plays
E. BEATRICE BATSON 133
Judy Knonenfeld, King Lear and The Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance
ANDREW JAMES HARTLEY 136
Cecile M. Jagodzinski, Privacy and Print: Reading and Writing in Seventeenth-Century England
CHARLOTEE F. OTTEN 138
A.N. Wilson, God’s Funeral
JOHN R. HOLT 141
Gauri Viswanathan, Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief
HELEN PIKE BAUER 144
Douglas Lane Patey, The Life of Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography
JOSEPH SCHWARTZ 147
Malcom Bowie, Proust Among the Stars
SUZANNE NALBANTAIN 150
Michael Kreyling, Inventing Southern Literature
RALPH C. WOOD 153
Susan McCaslin, ed., A Matter of Spirit: Recovery of the Sacred in Contemporary Canadian Poetry
DAVID A. KENT 156
Poetry
Unnamed 48
Vincent and Theo 74
IDA FASEL
Esther
COLETTE TENNANT 110
Trolling the Kennebec
JOHN LEAX 159