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Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson : Resisting Secularism.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- New, Melvyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and literature.
- Secularism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : University of Delaware Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- This book, 'Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism,' edited by Melvyn New and Gerard Reedy, explores the intersection of theology and literature during the 18th century in Great Britain. It examines the tension between secularism and religious belief in the works of key literary figures such as Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Richardson. The collection of essays addresses the impact of religious thought on literature and intellectual life, considering how authors of the time navigated the challenges of maintaining religious truth amidst growing secular influences. The book is intended for scholars and students interested in the relationship between religion and literature, and how these fields influenced each other during a pivotal historical period. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Novelistic Redemption and the History of Grace: Practical Theology and Literary Form in Richardson’s Pamela and Fielding’s Joseph Andrews
- 2 The Oxford Methodists (1733; 1738): The Purloined Letter of John Wesley at Samuel Richardson’s Press
- 3 Henry Fielding Straddles a Moving Theme
- 4 Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and the Problem of Heaven
- 5 The Intellectual Background to Johnson’s Life of Browne: A Study of Johnsonian Construction
- 6 “But Philosophy Can Tell No More”: Johnson’s Christian Moralism and the Genre of Rasselas
- 7 Johnson’s Fallen World
- 8 Aesthetics and Theology in Samuel Johnson’s Life of Isaac Watts and Prayers and Meditations (1785)
- 9 Providence, Futurity, and Typology in Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield
- 10 Divine and Human Love: Letters between John Norris and Mary Astell, Laurence Sterne and Eliza Draper
- 11 Tristram Shandy and the Devil
- 12 Methodists on the Move in The Spiritual Quixote
- 13 “A Very Agreable Way of Thinking”: Devotion and Doctrine in Boswell’s Religion
- 14 Bluestockings and Religion
- 15 “Through a Glass Darkly”: Edmund Burke, Political Theology, and Literary Allusion
- 16 The Bible in the Dock: Thomas Erskine, Thomas Paine, and the Trial of The Age of Reason
- 17 The Novel as the Art of Secular Scripture: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Feminist Gospel
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- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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- ISBN:
- 9781644530986
- 1644530988
- OCLC:
- 1191082270
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