Secular Chains uses close readings of the work of a range of canonical poets to re-evaluate the relationship between English literary culture and the political challenges to religious authority that emerged in the wake of the civil wars, and which culminated in the intellectual ferment of the early Enlightenment.
Secular Chains uses close readings of the work of a range of canonical poets to re-evaluate the relationship between English literary culture and the political challenges to religious authority that emerged in the wake of the civil wars, and which culminated in the intellectual ferment of the early Enlightenment.
Philip Connell was educated at the University of Liverpool and completed his Ph.D. at King's College, Cambridge. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English and a Fellow of Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on English literature and its contexts between 1650 and 1840, with a particular emphasis upon interdisciplinary studies in the fields of poetry, politics, and intellectual history.
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List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note on the Text Introduction PART I: COMMONWEALTH 1: 'Hireling wolves': Poetry, Prophecy and Republican Religion PART II: RESTORATION 2: The Failure of Uniformity 3: 'Priests of all Religions are the same': Dryden and the Politics of Irreligion PART III: ENLIGHTENMENT 4: Whig Poetics and the Church in Danger 5: The Literature of Physico-Theology 6: Alexander Pope and the Modes of Faith Coda: Pope, Milton, Modernity Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note on the Text Introduction PART I: COMMONWEALTH 1: 'Hireling wolves': Poetry, Prophecy and Republican Religion PART II: RESTORATION 2: The Failure of Uniformity 3: 'Priests of all Religions are the same': Dryden and the Politics of Irreligion PART III: ENLIGHTENMENT 4: Whig Poetics and the Church in Danger 5: The Literature of Physico-Theology 6: Alexander Pope and the Modes of Faith Coda: Pope, Milton, Modernity Bibliography Index
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