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Theology and literature in the age of Johnson : resisting secularism
- Title
- Theology and literature in the age of Johnson : resisting secularism / edited by Melvyn New and Gerard Reedy.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.
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- Description
- xxi, 350 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Melvyn New -- Novelistic redemption and the history of grace: practical theology and literary form in Richardson's Pamela and Fielding's Joseph Andrews / Donald R. Wehrs -- Oxford Methodists (1733; 1738): the purloined letter of John Wesley at Samuel Richardson's press / John A. Dussinger -- Henry Fielding straddles a moving theme / Regina Janes -- Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and the problem of heaven / E. Derek Taylor -- Intellectual background to Johnson's Life of Browne: a study of Johnsonian construction / Robert G. Walker -- "But philosophy can tell no more": Johnson's Christian moralism and the genre of Rasselas / Patrick Müller -- Johnson's fallen world / Steven Scherwatzky -- Aesthetics and theology in Samuel Johnson's Life of Isaac Watts and Prayers and meditations (1785) / Katherine Kickel -- Providence, futurity, and typology in Oliver Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield / Nicholas Seager -- Divine and human love: letters between John Norris and Mary Astell, Laurence Sterne and Eliza Draper / Geoff Newton -- Tristram Shandy and the devil / Ryan J. Stark -- Methodists on the move in The spiritual Quixote / Brett C. McInelly -- "A very agreable way of thinking": devotion and doctrine in Boswell's religion / Paul Tankard -- Bluestockings and religion / Deborah Heller -- "Through a glass darkly": Edmund Burke, political theology, and literary allusion / Frans De Bruyn -- Bible in the dock: Thomas Erskine, Thomas Paine, and the trial of The age of reason / Roger D. Lund -- Novel as the art of secular scripture: Mary Wollstonecraft's feminist gospel / Nathalie Zimpfer.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-5682
- ISBN
- 9781611494006 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1611494001 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781611494013 (electronic)
- 161149401X (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2012010679
- OCLC
- 779265265
- Title
- Theology and literature in the age of Johnson : resisting secularism / edited by Melvyn New and Gerard Reedy.
- Imprint
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- New, Melvyn.Reedy, Gerard.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-5682