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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... Woman some Biscuit for her Child. Frontispiece to A Voyage round the world, in His Majesty's ship the Dolphin, commanded by the Honourable Commodore Byron: in which is contained, a faithful account of several places, people, plants ...
... Woman some Biscuit for her Child. Frontispiece to A Voyage round the world, in His Majesty's ship the Dolphin, commanded by the Honourable Commodore Byron: in which is contained, a faithful account of several places, people, plants ...
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... woman are created together and equal; the only thing resembling dialogue is God's repeated pronouncement that “it was good.” The Eden story, by contrast, is a mythic narrative of archetypal characters in conflicting relationships that ...
... woman are created together and equal; the only thing resembling dialogue is God's repeated pronouncement that “it was good.” The Eden story, by contrast, is a mythic narrative of archetypal characters in conflicting relationships that ...
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... Woman. Both Milton and Rousseau permeate the Vindication not only in terms of their political ideas, but also as paradigms of art and aesthetics. Wollstonecraft rewrites Genesis to formulate a paradoxical poetics that would reconcile a ...
... Woman. Both Milton and Rousseau permeate the Vindication not only in terms of their political ideas, but also as paradigms of art and aesthetics. Wollstonecraft rewrites Genesis to formulate a paradoxical poetics that would reconcile a ...
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... woman , and brought her unto the man . And Adam said , This is now bone of my bones , and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman , because she was taken out of Man . Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother , Split ...
... woman , and brought her unto the man . And Adam said , This is now bone of my bones , and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman , because she was taken out of Man . Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother , Split ...
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... woman simultaneously , while in the second , Eve is created after Adam and specifically for him ( " it is not good that the man should be alone " ) . In P , the Priestly account , we are presented with creation from the perspective of ...
... woman simultaneously , while in the second , Eve is created after Adam and specifically for him ( " it is not good that the man should be alone " ) . In P , the Priestly account , we are presented with creation from the perspective of ...
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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