Chapter Excerpts posted online

(As we approach 20 years after publication, I have started posting shortened and slightly edited versions of the chapters of the book online.)

Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Secular Critical Tradition; From Daniel Defoe to James Wood

Chapter 2: On Benjamin Disraeli, Daniel Deronda and Victorian Proto-Zionism

Chapter 8: Literary Secularism After 9/11: Philip Roth's Plot Against America, Orhan Pamuk's Snow, and Edward Said