Clashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction

by Albert H. Tricomi

Book Overview

Clashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction is the first study to identify a body of twentieth-century American fiction that represents the increasing tensions experienced by people of Christian faith in response to Darwinism, the higher biblical criticism, and modern medicine. Delineating how these works dramatize clashes between scientific and conservative Protestant understandings of the world, Albert H. Tricomi examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814253075
• ISBN13: 9780814253076
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"