Giving the Devil His Due: Leeching and Edification of Spirit in The Scarlet Letter and The Witches of Eastwick

James Plath

Giving the Devil His Due: Leeching and Edification of Spirit in The Scarlet Letter and The Witches of Eastwick

Illinois Wesleyan University

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Abstract

The essays collected here evaluate the religious dimension of Updike's prodigious literary vision, looking broadly at Updike's understanding of religion in ordinary human experience, in the context of historic Christianity, and in contemporary American culture.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	John Updike and Religion: The Sense of the Sacred and the Motions of Grace
State	Published - Oct 1999

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities
American Studies
Literature in English, North America
Modern Literature

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