James Bryant Reeves

Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century (eBook, PDF)

A Literary History of Atheism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Documents eighteenth-century literary representations of atheism, arguing that opposition to atheism generated unique forms of religious belief.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108875158
• Artikelnr.: 70908482

Autorenporträt

James Bryant Reeves is an assistant professor of English at Texas State University, San Marcos. His work has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, the Keats-Shelley Journal, and SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Linacre College, Oxford, and University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. An age of atheism
1. A complete system of atheism: Jonathan Swift
2. Godless dunces: Alexander Pope
3. The limits of self: Sarah Fielding
4. Gender and the Orient: Phebe Gibbes
5. Ecumenical poetics: William Cowper
6. Sympathy and unbelief: Percy Shelley.