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Religion and Eighteenth‐Century Literature
Author(s) -
Snead Jennifer
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00557.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , poetry , secularization , modernity , literature , history , classics , art , philosophy , religious studies , epistemology , law , political science
A chronological overview of the questions, assumptions, and methods characteristic of how twentieth‐ and twenty‐first‐century scholarship has treated religion in eighteenth‐century British literature, centered on how ideas concerning the relationship between secularization and modernity have impacted this scholarship. It draws primarily on representative book‐length studies and monographs on eighteenth‐century British poetry and fiction published over the past sixty years.