Reassessing the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment, Ana Acosta here traces a tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and Scriptural language from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Acosta's interdisciplinary approach places these writers in the broader context of eighteenth-century political theory, biblical criticism, religious studies and utopianism. Establishing the relationship between biblical criticism and republican utopias, Acosta shows that important utopian visions are better understood against the background of Genesis interpretation.…mehr
Reassessing the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment, Ana Acosta here traces a tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and Scriptural language from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Acosta's interdisciplinary approach places these writers in the broader context of eighteenth-century political theory, biblical criticism, religious studies and utopianism. Establishing the relationship between biblical criticism and republican utopias, Acosta shows that important utopian visions are better understood against the background of Genesis interpretation.
Ana M. Acosta is Assistant Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA. She has published a number of articles on topics related to religion and enlightenment in the long eighteenth century and is currently at work on a book on the intersection between medical discourse and the religious epistemologies of Catholicism and Protestantism during the same period.
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Contents: Introduction: West of Eden Origin is the goal: Genesis in the 18th century Dr. Milton's guide or, the Utopia within The passion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or, The Dystopia within Wollstonecraft's body politics or, philosophy in the bedroom Frankenstein or, L'Education des habitants d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction: West of Eden Origin is the goal: Genesis in the 18th century Dr. Milton's guide or, the Utopia within The passion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or, The Dystopia within Wollstonecraft's body politics or, philosophy in the bedroom Frankenstein or, L'Education des habitants d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes Bibliography Index.
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