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Author:

Dempsey, Sean, 1974- author.

Title:

Words made flesh : formations of the postsecular in British Romanticism / Sean Dempsey.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xii, 329 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

1700-1799
Postsecularism.
Self in literature.
Civilization, Secular, in literature.
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Romanticism--Great Britain.
Postsecularism.
Civilization, Secular, in literature.
English literature.
Intellectual life.
Romanticism.
Self in literature.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-311) and index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 6. "Open-Hearted": Persuasion and the Cultivation of Good Humor. 1. Theorizing the Postsecular -- pt. II Mediating the Postsecular -- 2. Poetic Faith -- 3. Coleridge's Parable of Modernity -- 4. "To See as a God Sees": Keats and Cinematic Subjectivity -- pt. III Anthropology of the Postsecular -- 5. "Awful Doubt": Shelley's Tragic Skepticism -- 6. "Open-Hearted": Persuasion and the Cultivation of Good Humor.

Summary:

"Words Made Flesh demonstrates how the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley and the novelist Jane Austen affect, mediate, and ultimately alter our sense of self and embodiment in ways that not only feel profound but also have lasting effects on readers' affective, political, and spiritual lives. The author draws in particular on secular and postsecular studies, affect theory, and media studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Studies in religion and culture

ISBN:

0813948126
9780813948126
0813948118
9780813948119

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1312652745

LCCN:

2022010760

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)