Kevin Seidel

Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel

The Bible in English Fiction 1678-1767

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Produktbeschreibung

Unsettling the usual ways we think about the relationship between religion and secularism, and focusing on scenes where the Bible shows up as a physical object in eighteenth-century English fiction, this book powerfully argues that the English novel rose with the Bible, not after it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781108491037
• ISBN-10: 1108491030
• Artikelnr.: 59988482

Autorenporträt

Kevin Seidel is an Associate Professor of English literature at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Rethinking the Secular at the Origins of the English
Novel: 1. A secular for literary studies; 2. The Bible, the novel, and the
veneration of culture; Part II. Versions of Biblical Authority: 3.
Sanctifying commodity: the English Bible trade around the Atlantic,
1660¿1799; 4. Prop of the state: biblical criticism and the forensic
authority of the Bible; 5. Object of intimacy: the devotional uses of the
eighteenth-century Bible; Part III. Uses of Scripture for Fiction: 6.
Traveling papers: Pilgrim's Progress and the book; 7. Being surprised by
providence: Robinson Crusoe as Defoe's theory of fiction; 8. Resilient to
narrative: Clarissa after reading; 9. Breaking down shame: narrating trauma
and repair in Tristram Shandy.