Spring 2009, Volume 58, Issue 3
From The Editor
Articles
"Mine Earthly Heart Should Dare": Elizabeth Barrett's Devotional Poetry
Heather Shippen Cianciola
Thérèse of Lisieux and Alphonse de Lamartine: The Spiritual Transformation of Romanticism
Mary Frances Dorschell
The Law of Sex and Death: Religious Language and Practice in Edith Wharton's Summer
Laura E. Rutland
Incarnation, Inwardness, and Imagination: George Eliot's Early Fiction
Marilyn Orr
Special Features
Further Thoughts on a Prodigal Son Who Cannot Come Home, on Loneliness and Grace:
An Interview with Marilynne Robinson
Rebecca M. Painter
2008 Conference on Christianity and Literature Awards
In Memoriam: In Praise of John Updike (1932-2009)
Stephen H. Webb
Book Reviews
Logan E. Whalen, Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory
Monica Brzezinski Potkay
F. Thomas Noonan, The Road to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and Travel in the Age of Discovery; Grace Tiffany, Love's Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey in English
Renaissance Literature
Cyndia Susan Clegg
Janet Adelman, Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in the Merchant of Venice
Everett G. Neasman
Walter S. H. Lim, John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism
Lana Cable
Jarlath Kelleen, Gothic Ireland: Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century
Laura Dabundo
Michael R. Tobin, Georges Bernanos: The Theological Source of His Art
Joseph Cunneen
William V. Davis, R. S. Thomas: Poetry and Theology
David C. Mahan
Diana Pavlac Glyer, The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
Joel D. Heck
Don W. King, Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter
Michael Ward
Dale Brown, Conversations with American Writers: The Doubt, the Faith, the In-Between
John H. Timmerman
Marilynne Robinson, Home
Steve J. Van Der Weele
Poetry
Son of the Prodigal Speaks
Joseph Radke
Nativity in Black and White
Ann Applegarth
Faith
Your Speed
Rhoda Janzen
Starlings
John Savoie
Canaan Valley, October
The Buildings of Languedoc, France
Luci Shaw
A Familiar Face
Stella Nesanovich
Romans
Susan Groff Johnston
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