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02751aam a2200409 i 4500 001 A223BDF2CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210617010040 008 200908t20212021enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020041195 020 $a 1108491030 020 $a 9781108491037 035 $a (OCoLC)1184098404 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d YDX $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR830.B48 $b S45 2021 082 00 $a 823.009/382 $2 23 100 1 $a Seidel, Kevin, $e author. 245 10 $a Rethinking the secular origins of the novel : $b the Bible in English fiction 1678-1767 / $c Kevin Seidel, Eastern Mennonite University. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xii, 325 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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 where the Bible appears as a physical object. Situating those scenes in wider circuits of biblical criticism, Bible printing, and devotional reading, Seidel cogently demonstrates that such scenes reveal a great deal about the artistic ambitions of the novels themselves and point to the different ways those novels reconfigured their readers' relationships to the secular world. With insightful readings of the appearance of the Bible as a physical object in fiction by John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Scott, Frances Sheridan, and Laurence Sterne, this book contends that the English novel rises with the English Bible, not after it"-- $c Provided by publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-319) and index. 630 00 $a Bible $x In literature. 630 07 $a Bible $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01356024 648 7 $a 1600-1799 $2 fast 650 0 $a English fiction $y 17th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Secularism in literature. 650 7 $a Bible and literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00831217 650 7 $a English fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Seidel, Kevin. $t Rethinking the secular origins of the novel. $d Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021 $z 9781108867290 $w (DLC) 2020041196 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317025026.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A223BDF2CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search