Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary ShelleyIn a reassessment of the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment, Ana Acosta here traces a tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and Scriptural language from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Acosta's interdisciplinary approach places these writers in the broader context of eighteenth-century political theory, biblical criticism, religious studies and utopianism. Acosta's argument is twofold: she establishes the importance of Genesis within utopian thinking, in particular the influential models of Milton and Rousseau; and she demonstrates that the power of these models can be explained neither by traditional religious paradigms nor by those of religion or philosophy. In establishing the relationship between biblical criticism and republican utopias, Acosta makes a solid case that important utopian visions are better understood against the background of Genesis interpretation. This study opens a new perspective on theories of secularization, and as such will interest scholars of religious studies, intellectual history, and philosophy as well as of literary studies. |
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... Century From Milton to Mary Shelley ANA M. ACOSTA Brooklyn College , City University of New York , USA Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge.
... Century From Milton to Mary Shelley ANA M. ACOSTA Brooklyn College , City University of New York , USA Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge.
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... (London, 1749). Photo: Mark Hemhauser. Courtesy of University Archives and Special Collections, American University Library. F. Haymon, Book 4. In John Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. Thomas Newton, 2 vols (London, 1749). Photo: Mark ...
... (London, 1749). Photo: Mark Hemhauser. Courtesy of University Archives and Special Collections, American University Library. F. Haymon, Book 4. In John Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. Thomas Newton, 2 vols (London, 1749). Photo: Mark ...
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... London. Work on this book was also supported in part by two grants from the City University of New York PSC-CUNY Research Award Program. Many thanks are due to Susan McElrath in University Archives and Special Collections at American ...
... London. Work on this book was also supported in part by two grants from the City University of New York PSC-CUNY Research Award Program. Many thanks are due to Susan McElrath in University Archives and Special Collections at American ...
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... (London: Pickering, 1996), pp. 36–7. 5 A few examples include Edmund Burke's Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), Condillac's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746) ...
... (London: Pickering, 1996), pp. 36–7. 5 A few examples include Edmund Burke's Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), Condillac's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746) ...
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... ( London : New Left Books , 1971 ) , pp . 127–86 , at p . 162. See also Michèle Barrett , The Politics of Truth from Marx to Foucault ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1991 ) , pp . 82-4 . 7 Chapter 1 Origin Is the Goal : Genesis ...
... ( London : New Left Books , 1971 ) , pp . 127–86 , at p . 162. See also Michèle Barrett , The Politics of Truth from Marx to Foucault ( Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1991 ) , pp . 82-4 . 7 Chapter 1 Origin Is the Goal : Genesis ...
Contents
Dr Miltons Guide or the Utopia Within | |
The Passion of JeanJacques Rousseau or the Dystopia Within | |
Wollstonecrafts Body Politics or Philosophy in the Bedroom | |
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