Sir Charles Grandison and the Sexual Politics of Toleration

Conway, Alison

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“…for example, have been revising the genealogies of enthusiasm and sensibility. David Alvarez and Alison Conway emphasize the role played by feeling in their accounts of religious tolerance, revising political histories of toleration and their indebtedness to ideas of reason and a “Whig language and imaginary” (Alvarez 476; Conway). Mary Helen McMurran's work on paganism explores the “mystery of mimesis” that links fiction and religion (340).…”

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Toward a Postsecular Eighteenth Century

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Harol

2015

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The twenty-first-century "turns" to religion, to theology, and to postsecularity have challenged the central tenets of the secularization thesis, even at times proclaiming its end. But scholarship on eighteenth-century British literature has not taken upwhether to defend or delegitimize secularization as fact or normthe challenges posed by these developments as often as other fields. This essay discusses why this might be so, and it points to work, and avenues for work, that might prove fruitful in reevaluating the secularization thesis. It argues that eighteenth-century literary critics should address the concerns and methods of postsecularism and that we have a special role to play in this area of scholarship.

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