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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... mythic narrative of archetypal characters in conflicting relationships that ends in tragedy. Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century is about these two versions of Genesis, about the interplay between the inaccessible 'no-where ...
... mythic narrative of archetypal characters in conflicting relationships that ends in tragedy. Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century is about these two versions of Genesis, about the interplay between the inaccessible 'no-where ...
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... helpful at this point to provide working definitions of these terms in anticipation of their use in the rest of the book . I use ideology to refer to any mythical or fictional account that explains or justifies the world as it is; in the.
... helpful at this point to provide working definitions of these terms in anticipation of their use in the rest of the book . I use ideology to refer to any mythical or fictional account that explains or justifies the world as it is; in the.
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... mythic—an Edenic no-place outside of time— and historical—rooted in the geographic, political, and aesthetic preoccupations of Restoration England. It is less apparent but equally demonstrable that Rousseau's Discours sur l'inégalité ...
... mythic—an Edenic no-place outside of time— and historical—rooted in the geographic, political, and aesthetic preoccupations of Restoration England. It is less apparent but equally demonstrable that Rousseau's Discours sur l'inégalité ...
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... mythic regularity and lack of eventfulness, as in the commonplace that the clocks of Königsberg were set by his daily constitutional;26 Casanova, by contrast, is known for the mythically eventful romance of his life, the unending ...
... mythic regularity and lack of eventfulness, as in the commonplace that the clocks of Königsberg were set by his daily constitutional;26 Casanova, by contrast, is known for the mythically eventful romance of his life, the unending ...
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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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