Religion in the Age of Reason
A Transatlantic Study of the Long Eighteenth Century
Published on 30. December 2009
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Hardback
978-0-404-64853-4 (ISBN)
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This collection of essays brings together international scholars examining the role of religion during a period whose scholarship has typically concentrated on the secular. While Locke, Newton, and Hume are central to understanding the Restoration and Augustan era, religious debates made their presence known everywhere. Issues of toleration, Deism, dissent, original sin, enthusiasm, and women's roles in religion appeared in sermons, novels, plays, pamphlets, and poetry. Studying religion necessarily leads us into the world of the economy, class, gender, rhetoric, philosophy, material culture, and aesthetics. Through disparate approaches to American and British literature and culture, these essays demonstrate how religion remained a central part of lived experience and literature during the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.
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English
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New York
United States
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
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978-0-404-64853-4 (9780404648534)
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Kevin L. Cope ""Fading Fast but Still in Print: The Brink of Visibility and the Form of Religious Experience, Spinoza to Cowper""; Katherine M. Quinsey ""Dualities of the Divine in Pope's Essay on Man and The Dunciad""; Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz ""Imagining War and Peace in the Eighteenth-Century Sermon""; Peter Nockles ""The Changing Legacy of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Varieties of Protestantism and Anti-Catholicism""; Patricia Bruckmann ""What Mrs. Noah Brought into the Ark: Reflections on Materiality, Relics, and Material Culture""; Murray Brown ""The Dream and Divine Revelation: Visionary Methodism in the Eighteenth Century""; Bob Tennant ""Tillotson and the Settlement of Church and State""; Michael Austin ""Bunyan's Book of Ruth: The Typological Structure of the Seventeenth-Century Debate on Women in the Church""; Gary Kuchar ""'Organs of thy Praise': The Function and Rhetoric of the Body in Thomas Traherne""; Brian Fehler ""Jonathan Edwards on Nature as a Language of God: Symbolic Typology as Rhetorical Presence""; Harry Clark Maddux ""Effects and Affects: Edward Taylor's Negotiation of Ramist Rhetoric""; Anne Barbeau Gardiner ""Division in Communion: Symbols of Transubstantiation in Donne, Milton, and Dryden"".