Screen LibraryUnquiet things : secularism in the romantic age /
Reading works by Austen, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley among others, Unquiet Things investigates the social and political disorders that arise within modern secular cultures. Jager demonstrates the distinctive ability of literary writing to register the uneasiness and anxiety that characterize the m...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Haney foundation series
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| Summary: |
Reading works by Austen, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley among others, Unquiet Things investigates the social and political disorders that arise within modern secular cultures. Jager demonstrates the distinctive ability of literary writing to register the uneasiness and anxiety that characterize the mood of secular modernity. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780812290400 |
| Index Number: | PR448 |
| CLC: | I561.064 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Unquiet Things -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Power of the Prince: Henry VIII and Henry VIII -- Chapter 2. The Melancholy of the Secular -- Chapter 3. Wishing for Nothing: Emma and the Dissolution -- Chapter 4. Coleridge at Sea: Kubla Khan and the Invention of Religion -- Chapter 5. Hippogriffs in the Library: Realism and Opposition from Hume to Scott -- Chapter 6. The Creation of Religious Minorities: Hogg s Justified Sinner -- Chapter 7. Byron and the Paradox of Reading -- Chapter 8. The Constellations of Romantic Religion -- Chapter 9. Shelley After Atheism -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |