Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century
«'Godless Fictions is a powerful intervention in an ongoing conversation about the role of belief and wonder in the long eighteenth century, ...' Misty G. Anderson, Eighteenth-Century Fiction»
Although there were no self-avowed British atheists before the 1780s, authors including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sarah Fielding, Phebe Gibbes, and William Cowper worried extensively about atheism's dystopian possibilities, and routinely represented atheists as being beyond the pale of human sympathy. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781108835909
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 16 x 24 cm
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«'Godless Fictions is a powerful intervention in an ongoing conversation about the role of belief and wonder in the long eighteenth century, ...' Misty G. Anderson, Eighteenth-Century Fiction»
«'A lucid, richly contextualized perspective on Enlightenment religion and sociability as well as literature. Recommended.' M. E. Burstein, Choice»
«'… a fresh, post-secular take on the literary representation of religious non-belief in Britain … Godless Fictions pioneers the study of atheism as a shaping force for fiction in the period.' Lisa O'Connell, Eighteenth-Century Studies»