Religion, toleration, and British writing, 1790-1830 / Mark Canuel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canuel, Mark, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 53.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Religion and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Religion and literature.

Religious tolerance in literature.

Religion and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Religious tolerance--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Religious tolerance.

Religious tolerance--Great Britain--History--18th century.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 317 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Religion, Toleration, & British Writing, 1790-1830

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Religion, Toleration, and British Writing, 1790-1830, Mark Canuel examines the way that Romantic poets, novelists and political writers criticized the traditional grounding of British political unity in religious conformity. Canuel shows how a wide range of writers including Jeremy Bentham, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Lord Byron not only undermined the validity of religion in the British state, but also imagined a new, tolerant and more organized mode of social inclusion. To argue against the authority of religion, Canuel claims, was to argue for a thoroughly revised form of tolerant yet highly organized government, in other words, a mode of political authority that provided unprecedented levels of inclusion and protection. Canuel argues that these writers saw their works as political and literary commentaries on the extent and limits of religious toleration. His study throws light on political history as well as the literature of the Romantic period.

Contents:

Romanticism and the writing of toleration

"Holy hypocrisy" and the rule of belief: Radcliffe's gothics

Coleridge's polemic divinity

Sect and secular economy in the Irish national tale

Wordsworth and the "frame of social being"

"Consecrated fancy": Byron and Keats

Conclusion: the Inquisitorial stage.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-313) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13415-3

1-280-15971-5

0-511-12074-5

0-511-04259-0

0-511-14829-1

0-511-33026-X

0-511-48412-7

0-511-04581-6

OCLC:

56112277