Reading Genesis In The Long Eighteenth Century

Author : Ana M. Acosta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351906555

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Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century by Ana M. Acosta Pdf

In a reassessment of 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. Acosta's argument is twofold: she establishes the importance of Genesis within utopian thinking, in particular the influential models of Milton and Rousseau; and she demonstrates that the power of these models can be explained neither by traditional religious paradigms nor by those of religion or philosophy. In establishing the relationship between biblical criticism and republican utopias, Acosta makes a solid case that important utopian visions are better understood against the background of Genesis interpretation. This study opens a new perspective on theories of secularization, and as such will interest scholars of religious studies, intellectual history, and philosophy as well as of literary studies.

Author : Sarah Apetrei,Sarah Louise Trethewey Apetrei
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521513968

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Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England by Sarah Apetrei,Sarah Louise Trethewey Apetrei Pdf

A pioneering study of the origins of feminist thought in late seventeenth-century England.

Author : Brenda Tooley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317130307

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Gender and Utopia in the Eighteenth Century by Brenda Tooley Pdf

Focusing on eighteenth-century constructions of symbolic femininity and eighteenth-century women's writing in relation to contemporary utopian discourse, this volume adjusts our understanding of the utopia of the Enlightenment, placing a unique emphasis on colonial utopias. These essays reflect on issues related to specific configurations of utopias and utopianism by considering in detail English and French texts by both women (Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding, Isabelle de Charrière) and men (Paltock and Montesquieu). The contributors ask the following questions: In the influential discourses of eighteenth-century utopian writing, is there a place for 'woman,' and if so, what (or where) is it? How do 'women' disrupt, confirm, or ground the utopian projects within which these constructs occur? By posing questions about the inscription of gender in the context of eighteenth-century utopian writing, the contributors shed new light on the eighteenth-century legacies that continue to shape contemporary views of social and political progress.

Author : Dr Carol Stewart
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409476054

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The Eighteenth-Century Novel and the Secularization of Ethics by Dr Carol Stewart Pdf

Linking the decline in Church authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with the increasing respectability of fiction, Carol Stewart provides a new perspective on the rise of the novel. The resulting readings of novels by authors such as Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Sheridan, Charlotte Lennox, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and Jane Austen trace the translation of ethical debate into secular and gendered terms. Stewart argues that the seventeenth-century debate about ethics that divided Latitudinarians and Calvinists found its way into novels of the eighteenth century. Her book explores the growing belief that novels could do the work of moral reform more effectively than the Anglican Church, with attention to related developments, including the promulgation of Anglican ethics in novels as a response to challenges to Anglican practice and authority. An increasingly legitimate genre, she argues, offered a forum both for investigating the situation of women and challenging patriarchal authority, and for challenging the dominant political ideology.

Author : Joanna Crosby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350378490

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Apples and Orchards since the Eighteenth Century by Joanna Crosby Pdf

Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological developments of Britain and the USA, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the importance of the apple as a symbol of both tradition and innovation. From the 18th century in Britain, technology innovation in fruit production and orchard management resulted in new varieties of apples being cultivated and consumed, while the orchard became a representation of stability. In America orchards were contested spaces, as planting seedling apple trees allowed settlers to lay a claim to land. In this book Joanna Crosby explores how apples and orchards have reflected the social, economic and cultural landscape of their times. From the association between English apples and 'English' virtues of plain speaking, hard work and resultant high-quality produce, to practices of wassailing highlighting the effects of urbanisation and the decline of country ways and customs, Apples and Orchards from the Eighteenth Century shows how this everyday fruit provides rich insights into a time of significant social change.

Author : Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813231211

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Alfred Loisy and Modern Biblical Studies by Jeffrey L. Morrow Pdf

Author : Elizabeth S. Dodd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317172932

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Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology by Elizabeth S. Dodd Pdf

The seventeenth-century poet and divine Thomas Traherne finds innocence in every stage of existence. He finds it in the chaos at the origins of creation as well as in the blessed order of Eden. He finds it in the activities of grace and the hope of glory, but also in the trials of misery and even in the abyss of the Fall. Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne’s Poetic Theology traces innocence through Traherne’s works as it transgresses the boundaries of the estates of the soul. Using grammatical and literary categories it explores various aspects of his poetic theology of innocence, uncovering the boundless desire which is embodied in the yearning cry: ’Were all Men Wise and Innocent...’ Recovering and reinterpreting a key but increasingly neglected theme in Traherne’s poetic theology, this book addresses fundamental misconceptions of the meaning of innocence in his work. Through a contextual and theological approach, it indicates the unexplored richness, complexity and diversity of this theme in the history of literature and theology.

Author : Scott Hahn,Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781949013665

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Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft (1700-1900) by Scott Hahn,Jeffrey L. Morrow Pdf

Modern biblical scholarship is often presented as analogous to the hard and natural sciences; its histories present the developmental stages as quasi-scientific discoveries. That image of Bible scholars as neutral scientists in pursuit of truth has persisted for too long. Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft (1700-1900) by Scott W. Hahn and Jeffrey L. Morrow examines the lesser known history of the development of modern biblical scholarship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This volume seeks partially to fulfill Pope Benedict XVI’s request for a thorough critique of modern biblical criticism by exploring the eighteenth and nineteenth century roots of modern biblical scholarship, situating those scholarly developments in their historical, philosophical, theological, and political contexts. Picking up where Scott W. Hahn and Benjamin Wiker’s Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture 1300-1700 left off, Hahn and Morrow show how biblical scholarship continued along a secularizing trajectory as it found a home in the newly developing Enlightenment universities, where it received government funding. Modern Biblical Criticism as a Tool of Statecraft (1700-1900) makes clear why the discipline of modern biblical studies is often so hostile to religious and faith commitments today.

Author : Deanna P. Koretsky
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438482903

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Death Rights by Deanna P. Koretsky Pdf

Death Rights presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative "genius." Putting texts by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and others into critical conversation with African American literature, black studies, and feminist theory, Deanna P. Koretsky argues that romanticism is part and parcel of the legal and philosophical discourses underwriting liberal modernity's antiblack foundations. Read in this context, the trope of romantic suicide serves a distinct political function, indexing the limits of liberal subjectivity and (re)inscribing the rights and freedoms promised by liberalism as the exclusive province of white men. The first book-length study of suicide in British romanticism, Death Rights also points to the enduring legacy of romantic ideals in the academy and contemporary culture more broadly. Koretsky challenges scholars working in historically Eurocentric fields to rethink their identification with epistemes rooted in antiblackness. And, through discussions of recent cultural touchstones such as Kurt Cobain's resurgence in hip-hop and Victor LaValle's comic book sequel to Frankenstein, Koretsky provides all readers with a trenchant analysis of how eighteenth-century ideas about suicide continue to routinize antiblackness in the modern world. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience. Learn more at the Fellowships Open Book Program website at: https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1712.

Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781839990199

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Wollstonecraft and Religion by Brenda Ayres Pdf

Ever since Godwin announced to the world in Memoirs that Wollstonecraft had had little use for religion, most biographers, scholars, historians and readers have regarded her as an apostate. Further, the existing scholarly texts fail to demonstrate the pervasiveness of biblical references in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The true tally of scriptural references approaches over 1,100 as identified in this study. Wollstonecraft’s biblical allusions, besides sheer volume, are noteworthy because they gave women a biblical basis upon which to contend for better education and occupational opportunities as well as for legal and political independence. That the arguments were couched in biblical rhetoric most likely contributed to their initial reception and tolerance of what were incendiary ideas and searing social criticism. The recognition and analysis of biblical underpinnings in Wollstonecraft and Religion not only of Rights of Woman but also of her other publications and letters propose new consideration regarding the Mother of Feminism and her work. The chapters that accompany the annotated text of Rights of Woman furnish biographical and historical context that offer fresh perspectives about Wollstonecraft’s religious convictions and faith, many of which have not been published elsewhere.

Author : Julia Ipgrave
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317185581

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Adam in Seventeenth Century Political Writing in England and New England by Julia Ipgrave Pdf

Designed to contribute to a greater understanding of the religious foundations of seventeenth century political writing, this study offers a detailed exploration of the significance of the figure and story of Adam at that time. The book investigates seventeenth-century writings from England and New England-examining writings by Roger Williams and John Eliot, Gerrard Winstanley, John Milton, and John Locke-to explore the varying significance afforded to the Biblical figure of Adam in theories of the polity. In so doing, it counters over-simplified views of modern secular political thought breaking free from the confines of religion, by showing the diversity of political models and possibilities that Adamic theories supported. It provides contextual background for the appreciation of seventeenth-century culture and other cultural artefacts, and feeds into current scholarly interest in the relationship between religion and the public sphere, and in stories of origins and Creation.

Author : Ayesha Ramachandran
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226288796

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The Worldmakers by Ayesha Ramachandran Pdf

Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. 'The Worldmakers' moves beyond histories of globalisation to explore how 'the world' itself - variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order - was self-consciously shaped by human agents.

Author : Constantin Volney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108493109

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Volney: The Ruins of Empires and Catechism of Natural Law by Constantin Volney Pdf

Fresh, modern translation of a major French Revolutionary text, which argues for popular sovereignty in the form of a dream-tale.

Author : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857283092

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War and Peace by Bryan S. Turner Pdf

Reflections on Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” these original essays examine various facets of violence and human efforts to create peace. Religion is deeply involved in both processes: ones that produce violence and ones that seek to create harmony. In the war on terror, radical religion is often seen to be a major cause of inter-group violence. However, these essays show a much more complex picture in which religion is often on the receiving end of conflict that has its origin in the actions of the state in response to tensions between majorities and minorities. As this volume demonstrates, the more public religion becomes, the more likely it is to be imbricated in communal strife.

Author : Mark Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441117878

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An Introduction to Religion and Literature by Mark Knight Pdf

Religion has always been an integral part of the literary tradition: many canonical and non-canonical texts engage extensively with religious ideas, and the development of English Literature as a professional discipline began with an explicit consideration of the relationship between religion and literature. Literature also plays an important role in religious writing, as twentieth-century work on narrative theology has acknowledged. Both the recent theological turn of literary theory and the renewed political significance of religious debate in contemporary western culture have generated further interest in this interdisciplinary area. An Introduction to Religion and Literature offers a lucid, accessible and thoughtful introduction to the study of religion and literature. While the focus is on Christian theology and post-1800 British literature, substantial reference is made to earlier writers, texts from North America and mainland Europe, and other faith positions. Each chapter takes up a major theological idea and explores it through close readings of well-known and influential literary texts.