Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley

Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley
ISBN-10
0754656136
ISBN-13
9780754656135
Category
Religion
Pages
234
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Ana M. Acosta

Description

Reassessing 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. Establishing the relationship between biblical criticism and republican utopias, Acosta shows that important utopian visions are better understood against the background of Genesis interpretation.

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