Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson - Resisting Secularism

Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and theologies. To argue that the age "resisted secularism" is by no means to argue that resistance was blindly doctrinal or rigidly uniform. The many ways secularism could be resisted is the subject of the collection.

Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

About the author

Melvyn New is Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida.
Gerard Reedy, S.J., was former Professor of English at Fordham University and former President of the College of the Holy Cross.

Summary

Presents seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and theologies.

Product details

• Authors: Melvyn New, Melvyn Reedy New, NEW REEDY, Gerard Reedy, Gerard S J Reedy
• Assisted by: Melvyn New (Editor), Gerard Reedy (Editor)
• Publisher: Associated universities press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9781644530979
• ISBN: 978-1-64453-097-9
• No. of pages: 374
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies