Literary Atheism

Gordon (English, Hunter College and City U. of New York) de- emphasizes the popular distinction between believers and non-believers, to highlight a distinction between those theists or atheists who are naive and those who are sophisticated. His interest is in the latter: literary atheists who do not believe in the ghosts of religion and yet, to the extent they are part of their culture, continue to be haunted by them. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR