Unquiet Things : : Secularism in the Romantic Age / / Colin Jager.

In Great Britain during the Romantic period, governmental and social structures were becoming more secular as religion was privatized and depoliticized. If the discretionary nature of religious practice permitted spiritual freedom and social differentiation, however, secular arrangements produced ne...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Haney Foundation Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Unquiet Things
  • PART I. Reform
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Power of the Prince: Henry VIII and Henry VIII
  • Chapter 2. The Melancholy of the Secular
  • Chapter 3. Wishing for Nothing: Emma and the Dissolution
  • PART II. Sounding the Quiet
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4. Coleridge at Sea: ''Kubla Khan'' and the Invention of Religion
  • Chapter 5. Hippogriffs in the Library: Realism and Opposition from Hume to Scott
  • Chapter 6. The Creation of Religious Minorities: Hogg's Justified Sinner
  • PART III. After the Secular
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 7. Byron and the Paradox of Reading
  • Chapter 8. The Constellations of Romantic Religion
  • Chapter 9. Shelley After Atheism
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments