Corrinne Harol

Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reveals a synergy between postsecularity - as a critique of emergent liberal secular ideals and practices - and the modern literary sphere, in which conservative writers feature prominently. Corrinne Harol argues boldly yet compellingly that influential literary forms and practices including fiction, mental freedom, worlding, reading, narration, and historical fiction are in fact derived from these writers' responses to secularization. Interrogating a series of concepts - faith, indulgence, figuring, reading, passivity, revolution, and nostalgia - central to secular culture, this study also engages with works by Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Margaret Cavendish and Walter Scott, as well as attending to the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and Edmund Burke. Countering eighteenth-century studies' current overreliance on the secularization narrative (as content and method, fact and norm), this book models how a postsecular approach can help us to understand this period, and secularization itself, more fully.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009273466
• Artikelnr.: 68954702

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Political and Fictional Relations: 1. Faith: Impersonating Faith,
or How We Came to Have Faith in Fiction; 2. Indulgence: The Stuart
Declarations of Indulgence and their Afterlives. Part II: Postsecular
Literary Experiences: Worlds and Time: 3. Figuring: Margaret Cavendish's
Critique of Imagining and Worlding; 4. Reading: John Dryden's Postsecular
Apostolic and the Time of Literary History. Part III: Political Agents and
Novel Forms: 5. Passivity: The Passion of Oroonoko and the Ethics of
Narration; 6. Revolution and Nostalgia: Walter Scott and the Forms of
Jacobite Nostalgia. Coda: On Literary Conservatism as a Formal Category.