Unquiet Things - Secularism in the Romantic Age

Colin Jager is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University and author of The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

About the author

Colin Jager is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University and author of The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Jager
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2014
• EAN: 9780812246643
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4664-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Haney Foundation Series; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies