Imagining Religious Toleration : A Literary History of an Idea, 1600–1830 /
Imagining Religious Toleration : A Literary History of an Idea, 1600–1830 /
ed. by Alison Conway, David Alvarez.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Imagining Religious Toleration -- 1. Shylock, Conversion, Toleration -- 2. New World Behn: Toleration, Geography, and the Question of Humanity -- 3. Blind or Blindfolded? Disability, Religious Difference, and Milton’s Samson Agonistes -- 4. Imagining Worlds and Figuring Toleration: Freedom, Diversity, and Violence in A Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World -- 5. How to Handle the Intolerant: The Education of Pierre Bayle -- 6. The Difference Enlightenment Satire Makes to Religion: Hudibras to Hebdo -- 7. Daniel Defoe and the Geopolitics of Islamic Toleration -- 8. The Toleration of Enthusiasts -- 9. Joseph Priestley’s Romantic Progressivism -- 10. Translating Love in Prometheus Unbound -- Contributors -- Index
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Formerly a site of study reserved for intellectual historians and political philosophers, scholarship on religious toleration, from the perspective of literary scholars, is fairly limited. Largely ignored and understudied techniques employed by writers to influence cultural understandings of tolerance are rich for exploration. In investigating texts ranging from early modern to Romantic, Alison Conway, David Alvarez, and their contributors shed light on what literature can say about toleration, and how it can produce and manage feelings of tolerance and intolerance. Beginning with an overview of the historical debates surrounding the terms "toleration" and "tolerance," this book moves on to discuss the specific contributions that literature and literary modes have made to cultural history, studying the literary techniques that philosophers, theologians, and political theorists used to frame the questions central to the idea and practice of religious toleration. Tracing the rhetoric employed by a wide range of authors, the contributors delve into topics such as conversion as an instrument of power in Shakespeare; the relationship between religious toleration and the rise of Enlightenment satire; and the ways in which writing can act as a call for tolerance.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487513962
10.3138/9781487513962 doi
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Religious tolerance in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General .
Defoe. Enlightenment. Merchant of Venice. Milton. Shakespeare. eighteenth-century novel. literary studies. literature and religion. literature. religious toleration. rhetoric. satire. tolerance. tropes.
820.9/382
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Imagining Religious Toleration -- 1. Shylock, Conversion, Toleration -- 2. New World Behn: Toleration, Geography, and the Question of Humanity -- 3. Blind or Blindfolded? Disability, Religious Difference, and Milton’s Samson Agonistes -- 4. Imagining Worlds and Figuring Toleration: Freedom, Diversity, and Violence in A Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World -- 5. How to Handle the Intolerant: The Education of Pierre Bayle -- 6. The Difference Enlightenment Satire Makes to Religion: Hudibras to Hebdo -- 7. Daniel Defoe and the Geopolitics of Islamic Toleration -- 8. The Toleration of Enthusiasts -- 9. Joseph Priestley’s Romantic Progressivism -- 10. Translating Love in Prometheus Unbound -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Formerly a site of study reserved for intellectual historians and political philosophers, scholarship on religious toleration, from the perspective of literary scholars, is fairly limited. Largely ignored and understudied techniques employed by writers to influence cultural understandings of tolerance are rich for exploration. In investigating texts ranging from early modern to Romantic, Alison Conway, David Alvarez, and their contributors shed light on what literature can say about toleration, and how it can produce and manage feelings of tolerance and intolerance. Beginning with an overview of the historical debates surrounding the terms "toleration" and "tolerance," this book moves on to discuss the specific contributions that literature and literary modes have made to cultural history, studying the literary techniques that philosophers, theologians, and political theorists used to frame the questions central to the idea and practice of religious toleration. Tracing the rhetoric employed by a wide range of authors, the contributors delve into topics such as conversion as an instrument of power in Shakespeare; the relationship between religious toleration and the rise of Enlightenment satire; and the ways in which writing can act as a call for tolerance.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487513962
10.3138/9781487513962 doi
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Religious tolerance in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General .
Defoe. Enlightenment. Merchant of Venice. Milton. Shakespeare. eighteenth-century novel. literary studies. literature and religion. literature. religious toleration. rhetoric. satire. tolerance. tropes.
820.9/382