God and Self in the Confessional Novel

<p></p> <p><i>God and Self in the Confessional Novel </i>explores the question: what happened to the theological practice of confession when it entered the modern novel?&#xa0; Beginning with the premise that guilt remains a universal human concern, this book considers confession via the classic confessional texts of Augustine and Rousseau. Employing this framework, John D. Sykes, Jr. examines Goethe’s <i>The Sorrows of Young Werther</i>, Dostoevsky’s <i>Notes from Underground</i>, Percy’s <i>Lancelot</i>, and McEwan’s <i>Atonement</i> to investigate the evolution of confession and guilt in literature from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century.</p> <p></p>

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