Puritanism and Modernist Novels: From Moral Character to the Ethical SelfIn Puritanism and Modernist Novels: From Moral Character to the Ethical Self, Lynne W. Hinojosa complicates traditional interpretations of the novel and literary modernism as secular developments of modernity by arguing that the British novel tradition is fundamentally shaped by Puritan hermeneutics and Bible reading practices. This tradition, however, simultaneously works to dismantle the categories associated with social morality and moral