Ana M. Acosta

Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century (eBook, ePUB)

From Milton to Mary Shelley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reassessing 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. Establishing the relationship between biblical criticism and republican utopias, Acosta shows that important utopian visions are better understood against the background of Genesis interpretation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351906555
• Artikelnr.: 49364946

Autorenporträt

Ana M. Acosta is Assistant Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA. She has published a number of articles on topics related to religion and enlightenment in the long eighteenth century and is currently at work on a book on the intersection between medical discourse and the religious epistemologies of Catholicism and Protestantism during the same period.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: West of Eden
Origin is the goal: Genesis in the 18th century
Dr. Milton's guide
or, the Utopia within
The passion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
or, The Dystopia within
Wollstonecraft's body politics
or, philosophy in the bedroom
Frankenstein
or, L'Education des habitants d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes
Bibliography
Index.