Rethinking the secular origins of the novel : the Bible in English fiction 1678-1767 /
"Literary histories of the novel tend to assume that religion naturally gives way to secularism, with the novel usurping the Bible after the Enlightenment. This book challenges that teleological conception of literary history by focusing on scenes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century fiction...
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| Main Author: |
Seidel, Kevin
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2021
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