Corrinne Harol (University of Alberta)

The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism

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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: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781009273480
• ISBN-10: 1009273485
• Artikelnr.: 64295860

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.