Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson

Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson
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Publisher : University of Delaware
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9781611494013
ISBN-13 : 161149401X
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Download or read book Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson written by Melvyn New and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen essays explore the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of theologies; to argue that the age “resisted secularism” is by no means to argue that that resistance was blindly doctrinal or rigidly uniform; the many ways secularism could be resisted is the subject of the collection


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