The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism

List of contents

Part I. Political and Fictional Relations: 1. Faith: Impersonating Faith, or How We Came to Have Faith in Fiction; 2. Indulgence: The Stuart Declarations of Indulgence and their Afterlives. Part II: Postsecular Literary Experiences: Worlds and Time: 3. Figuring: Margaret Cavendish's Critique of Imagining and Worlding; 4. Reading: John Dryden's Postsecular Apostolic and the Time of Literary History. Part III: Political Agents and Novel Forms: 5. Passivity: The Passion of Oroonoko and the Ethics of Narration; 6. Revolution and Nostalgia: Walter Scott and the Forms of Jacobite Nostalgia. Coda: On Literary Conservatism as a Formal Category.

Summary

Focused on conservative writers of the long Restoration, this book reveals a synergistic relationship between postsecularity and the modern sphere of literature. Its provocative account of the relationship between literature and politics is stimulating for scholars of eighteenth-century culture, literary studies, religion, and postsecularity.

Foreword

Corrinne Harol reveals how secularization catalysed conservative writers to respond and thereby contribute impactfully to literary history.

Product details

• Authors: Corrinne Harol, Harol Corrinne
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2025
• EAN: 9781009273459
• ISBN: 978-1-009-27345-9
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies