Add to ORKGThe eighteenth century is often characterized as the Age of enlightenment. J. C. D. Clark argues that this characterization distorts the important place of religion in eighteenth-century England. The purpose of my dissertation was to test Clark\u27s thesis by examining the importance of religion in secular literature. To that end, I analyzed the works of ten outstanding English authors of literature (1700-1785). References to religious themes and issues found in their works provided a measure and reflection of religious influence in society in general. A locus on the rode of religion in the authors\u27 personal lives determined how much this influenced their writings. My research involved reading numerous works about eighteenth-century Eng...
Jane Austen’s first major novel that was published, Sense and Sensibility, exemplifies the shifting ...
Fifteenth-century humanists traded the old schemes of history, with their six ages or four monarchie...
This study examines the development of theories of civil religion in Hanoverian Britain. In the afte...
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Despite the cultural, social,...
Critics who work with eighteenth-Critics who work with eighteenth-century texts have long wrestled w...
This introduction surveys the methodological approaches, critical categories and vocabularies that h...
his innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed pu...
B. W. Young describes and analyses the intellectual culture of the eighteenth-century Church of Engl...
The individual who first emerges in eighteenth-century England is new, but the subjectivity he or sh...
This dissertation argues that eighteenth-century British authors often employed atheism to explore b...
THESIS 7507This thesis argues that there is a connection between the secularisation of ethics in the...
The eighteenth century, known as the Age of Reason in England, saw the effect of intellectual pursui...
This volume examines the religious culture in which Sterne wrote his novels and sermons. Using passa...
This paper re-historicises the eighteenth-century marriage plot by shifting attention away from both...
This dissertation explores the intersections between gendered and religious identity in British nove...
Jane Austen’s first major novel that was published, Sense and Sensibility, exemplifies the shifting ...
Fifteenth-century humanists traded the old schemes of history, with their six ages or four monarchie...
This study examines the development of theories of civil religion in Hanoverian Britain. In the afte...
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Despite the cultural, social,...
Critics who work with eighteenth-Critics who work with eighteenth-century texts have long wrestled w...
This introduction surveys the methodological approaches, critical categories and vocabularies that h...
his innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed pu...
B. W. Young describes and analyses the intellectual culture of the eighteenth-century Church of Engl...
The individual who first emerges in eighteenth-century England is new, but the subjectivity he or sh...
This dissertation argues that eighteenth-century British authors often employed atheism to explore b...
THESIS 7507This thesis argues that there is a connection between the secularisation of ethics in the...
The eighteenth century, known as the Age of Reason in England, saw the effect of intellectual pursui...
This volume examines the religious culture in which Sterne wrote his novels and sermons. Using passa...
This paper re-historicises the eighteenth-century marriage plot by shifting attention away from both...
This dissertation explores the intersections between gendered and religious identity in British nove...
Jane Austen’s first major novel that was published, Sense and Sensibility, exemplifies the shifting ...
Fifteenth-century humanists traded the old schemes of history, with their six ages or four monarchie...
This study examines the development of theories of civil religion in Hanoverian Britain. In the afte...