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Abbreviations |
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Part I |
9 |
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| 1. |
Introduction: Howatch and the Academy
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13 |
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BRUCE JOHNSON
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| 2. |
One Story, One Voice, One Love: The Uses of Convention and Repetition in Howatch's Fiction |
17 |
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BRUCE JOHNSON
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| 4. |
Searching for the Elusive Truth: The Unity of Susan Howatch's Career
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38 |
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| 5. |
Romance, Desire, and History: The Shifting Narratives of Penmarric
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53 |
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SARAH GAMBLE |
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| 6. |
The Expanding "I" in Absolute Truths |
72 |
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ELAINE LUX |
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| 7. |
Reading, Faith, and the Analytic Process of the Starbridge Novels |
100 |
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KARYN Z. SPROLES |
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| 8. |
Alternate Languages and Abused Powers: The Sexual, Psychic, and Spiritual in Howatch's Ecclesiastical Novels |
122 |
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GA YLE HAMILTON GILL |
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| 9. |
The Lady is the Other: Women and Spirituality in Howatch's Church of England Fiction |
141 |
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BONNIE SHULLENBERGER |
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| 10. |
The "Hidden" Agenda: Feminist Perspectives in the Starbridge Novels |
168 |
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ELIZABETH EDWARDS |
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| 11. |
Julian of Norwich and Those Ambiguous Starbridge Women |
187 |
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CHERYL FORBES |
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| 12. |
Scandalous Risks: Sex, Scandal, and Spirituality in the Sixties |
198 |
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WILLIAM KUPERSMITH & JAN S. WAPLES
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Part II |
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| 13. |
Introduction: Essays by Susan Howatch
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221 |
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CHARLES A. HUTTAR
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| 14. |
Risks and Rewards in Writing the Saga Novel |
227 |
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SUSAN HOWATCH |
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| 15. |
The Starbridge Novels and Twentieth-Century Anglican Theology |
231 |
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SUSAN HOWATCH |
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| 16 |
Writing Healing: A Question of Integrity |
248 |
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SUSAN HOWATCH |
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| 17 |
Do Christian Novels Exist? |
256 |
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SUSAN HOWATCH |
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Bibliography of Works by and about Susan Howatch |
265 |
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CHARLES A. HUTTAR |
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Notes on Contributors Index |
277 |
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Index |
280 |
