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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