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“alison conway”

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  • Imagining Religious Toleration

    A Literary History of an Idea, 1600–1830

    Edited by Alison Conway, David Alvarez ...
    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 ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Sacred Engagements

    Interfaith Marriage, Religious Toleration, and the British Novel, 1750–1820

    by Alison Conway ...
    A revelatory reading of the British novel that considers interfaith marriage, religious toleration, and the ethics of sociability.Bringing together feminist theory, novel criticism, and religious studies, Alison Conway's Sacred Engagements advances a postsecular reading of the novel that links religious tolerance and the eighteenth-century marriage plot. Conway explores the historical roots of the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mind, Body, Motion, Matter

    Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives

    Edited by Mary Helen McMurran, Alison Conway ...
    Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third Earl of Shaftesbury and Denis Diderot. Focusing on embodied experience and the materialization of ... Read more

    $64.09 USD

  • Reflections on Sentiment

    Essays in Honor of George Starr

    by Barbara Benedict, James P. Carson, Alison Conway, Amy J. Pawl, Joanna Picciotto, John Richetti, George Haggerty, Geoffrey Sill, Simon Stern ...
    Reflections on Sentiment not only addresses current scholarly interest in feeling and affect but also provides an occasion to celebrate the career of George Starr, who, in more than fifty years of incisive scholarship and committed teaching, haselucidated the work of Daniel Defoe and the role of sentimentalism in what was once reductively termed an age of reason and realism. Due to the critique ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Protestant Whore

    Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750

    by Alison Conway ...
    After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly influenced by his Catholic mistresses. Nell Gwyn, actress and royal mistress, stood apart by virtue of her Protestant loyalty. In 1681, Gwyn, her carriage surrounded by an angry anti-Catholic mob, famously ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
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    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

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  • Mere Civility

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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