Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary ShelleyRoutledge, 2016 M12 5 - 217 pages In a reassessment of the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment, Ana Acosta here traces a tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and Scriptural language from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Acosta's interdisciplinary approach places these writers in the broader context of eighteenth-century political theory, biblical criticism, religious studies and utopianism. Acosta's argument is twofold: she establishes the importance of Genesis within utopian thinking, in particular the influential models of Milton and Rousseau; and she demonstrates that the power of these models can be explained neither by traditional religious paradigms nor by those of religion or philosophy. In establishing the relationship between biblical criticism and republican utopias, Acosta makes a solid case that important utopian visions are better understood against the background of Genesis interpretation. This study opens a new perspective on theories of secularization, and as such will interest scholars of religious studies, intellectual history, and philosophy as well as of literary studies. |
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... relationships that ends in tragedy. Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century is about these two versions of Genesis, about the interplay between the inaccessible 'no-where' of the abstract first creation and the fallen and earthly ...
... relationships that ends in tragedy. Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century is about these two versions of Genesis, about the interplay between the inaccessible 'no-where' of the abstract first creation and the fallen and earthly ...
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... relationship between them may best be glimpsed. The first book of the Hebrew Bible provided a common framework during the long eighteenth century for rewriting an origin of civil society that would be based on the individual as both ...
... relationship between them may best be glimpsed. The first book of the Hebrew Bible provided a common framework during the long eighteenth century for rewriting an origin of civil society that would be based on the individual as both ...
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... relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.”7 I refer throughout the book to two primary meanings of “utopia.” The first is the definition familiar from the genre utopia: the description of an ideal society. This ...
... relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.”7 I refer throughout the book to two primary meanings of “utopia.” The first is the definition familiar from the genre utopia: the description of an ideal society. This ...
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... relationship to Semitic and other ancient cultures. In both of these methods, the Bible is seen to be situated linearly in the remote past of an ongoing history: hence Geddes can now sever the New Testament from the Old, and can dissect ...
... relationship to Semitic and other ancient cultures. In both of these methods, the Bible is seen to be situated linearly in the remote past of an ongoing history: hence Geddes can now sever the New Testament from the Old, and can dissect ...
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... relationship with Voltaire, both in print and in person, but it is not clear how this might apply to the Icosameron, for it is in fact the only part of his oeuvre that Casanova did not mention in the later Memoirs. Casanova may have ...
... relationship with Voltaire, both in print and in person, but it is not clear how this might apply to the Icosameron, for it is in fact the only part of his oeuvre that Casanova did not mention in the later Memoirs. Casanova may have ...
Contents
Dr Miltons Guide or the Utopia Within | |
The Passion of JeanJacques Rousseau or the Dystopia Within | |
Wollstonecrafts Body Politics or Philosophy in the Bedroom | |
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Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley Ana M. Acosta Limited preview - 2006 |
Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley ANA M. ACOSTA No preview available - 2019 |
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