Colin Jager

The Book of God

Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""The Book of God" manages to be at once ambitious, deliberate, and nuanced in its interconnecting conceptions of philosophy and literary criticism."--Orrin Wang, University of Maryland

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780812239799
• ISBN-10: 0812239792
• Artikelnr.: 21402156

Autorenporträt

Colin Jager teaches English at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction. Nature is the Book of God
Chapter 1. The Argument Against Design from Deism to Blake
Chapter Two. Arbitrary Acts of Mind: Natural Theology in Hume's Dialogues
Concerning Natural Religion
Chapter Three. Theory, Practice, and Anna Barbauld
Chapter Four. Natural Designs: William Paley, Immanuel Kant, and the Power
of Analogy
Chapter Five. Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology
Chapter Six. Wordsworth: The Shape of Analogy
Chapter Seven. Reading With a Worthy Eye: Secularization and Evil
Chapter Eight. Religion Three Ways
Afterword. Intelligent Design and Religious Ignoramuses; or, the Difference
between Theory and Literature
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments