Corrinne Harol

The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Focused on conservative writers of the long Restoration, this book reveals a synergistic relationship between postsecularity and the modern sphere of literature. Its provocative account of the relationship between literature and politics is stimulating for scholars of eighteenth-century culture, literary studies, religion, and postsecularity"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781009273459
• ISBN-10: 1009273450
• Artikelnr.: 74537322

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Political and Fictional Relations: 1. Faith: Impersonating Faith,
or How We Came to Have Faith in Fiction; 2. Indulgence: The Stuart
Declarations of Indulgence and their Afterlives. Part II: Postsecular
Literary Experiences: Worlds and Time: 3. Figuring: Margaret Cavendish's
Critique of Imagining and Worlding; 4. Reading: John Dryden's Postsecular
Apostolic and the Time of Literary History. Part III: Political Agents and
Novel Forms: 5. Passivity: The Passion of Oroonoko and the Ethics of
Narration; 6. Revolution and Nostalgia: Walter Scott and the Forms of
Jacobite Nostalgia. Coda: On Literary Conservatism as a Formal Category.