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Cambridge University Press Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel: The Bible in English Fiction 1678–1767

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Literary histories of the novel tend to assume that religion naturally gives way to secularism, with the novel usurping the Bible after the Enlightenment. This book challenges that teleological conception of literary history by focusing on scenes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century fiction where the Bible appears as a physical object. Situating those scenes in wider circuits of biblical criticism, Bible printing, and devotional reading, Seidel cogently demonstrates that such scenes reveal a great deal about the artistic ambitions of the novels themselves and point to the different ways those novels reconfigured their readers' relationships to the secular world. With insightful readings of the appearance of the Bible as a physical object in fiction by John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Scott, Frances Sheridan, and Laurence Sterne, this book contends that the English novel rises with the English Bible, not after it. Review 'Throughout this monograph, the reader is comfortingly guided … through the convoluted relationship between the sacred and the secular. Seidel presents a well-reasoned argument that highlights the complex patterns and interactions between the physical presence of the Bible in the emerging genre of the novel. It is worth reading for anyone interested in the eighteenth-century rise of the novel, secularization and literature, and the increasingly popular religious history of the eighteenth century.' Rebekah Andrew, Eighteenth Century Fiction Book Description Challenging concepts of religion and secularism, this book shows the English novel rising with the English Bible, not after it. About the Author Kevin Seidel is an Associate Professor of English literature at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1108491030
Category: Books > Subjects > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > History & Criticism
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Release Date: 25 March 2021
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