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Author:   Kevin Seidel (Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9781108491037

ISBN 10:   1108491030
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   25 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Rethinking the Secular at the Origins of the English Novel: 1. A secular for literary studies; 2. The Bible, the novel, and the veneration of culture; Part II. Versions of Biblical Authority: 3. Sanctifying commodity: the English Bible trade around the Atlantic, 1660–1799; 4. Prop of the state: biblical criticism and the forensic authority of the Bible; 5. Object of intimacy: the devotional uses of the eighteenth-century Bible; Part III. Uses of Scripture for Fiction: 6. Traveling papers: Pilgrim's Progress and the book; 7. Being surprised by providence: Robinson Crusoe as Defoe's theory of fiction; 8. Resilient to narrative: Clarissa after reading; 9. Breaking down shame: narrating trauma and repair in Tristram Shandy.

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'Throughout this monograph, the reader is comfortingly guided … through the convoluted relationship between the sacred and the secular. Seidel presents a well-reasoned argument that highlights the complex patterns and interactions between the physical presence of the Bible in the emerging genre of the novel. It is worth reading for anyone interested in the eighteenth-century rise of the novel, secularization and literature, and the increasingly popular religious history of the eighteenth century.' Rebekah Andrew, Eighteenth Century Fiction

'Throughout this monograph, the reader is comfortingly guided ... through the convoluted relationship between the sacred and the secular. Seidel presents a well-reasoned argument that highlights the complex patterns and interactions between the physical presence of the Bible in the emerging genre of the novel. It is worth reading for anyone interested in the eighteenth-century rise of the novel, secularization and literature, and the increasingly popular religious history of the eighteenth century.' Rebekah Andrew, Eighteenth Century Fiction

Author Information

Kevin Seidel is an Associate Professor of English literature at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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