Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel: The Bible in English Fiction 1678–1767
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Literary histories of the novel tend to assume that religion naturally gives way to secularism, with the novel usurping the Bible after the Enlightenment. This book challenges that teleological conception of literary history by focusing on scenes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century fiction where the Bible appears as a physical object. Situating those scenes in wider circuits of biblical criticism, Bible printing, and devotional reading, Seidel cogently demonstrates that such scenes reveal a great deal about the artistic ambitions of the novels themselves and point to the different ways those novels reconfigured their readers' relationships to the secular world. With insightful readings of the appearance of the Bible as a physical object in fiction by John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Scott, Frances Sheridan, and Laurence Sterne, this book contends that the English novel rises with the English Bible, not after it. 01.0_pp_i_ii_Rethinking_the_Secular_Origins_of_the_Novel 02.0_pp_iii_iii_Rethinking_the_Secular_Origins_of_the_Novel 03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 04.0_pp_v_vi_Contents 05.0_pp_vii_vii_Figures 06.0_pp_viii_viii_Tables 07.0_pp_ix_ix_Appendixes 08.0_pp_x_xii_Acknowledgments 09.0_pp_1_12_Introduction 10.0_pp_13_64_Rethinking_the_Secular_at_the_Origins_of_the_English_Novel 10.1_pp_15_36_A_Secular_for_Literary_Studies 10.2_pp_37_64_The_Bible_the_Novel_and_the_Veneration_of_Culture 11.0_pp_65_154_Versions_of_Biblical_Authority 11.1_pp_67_93_Sanctifying_Commodity_The_English_Bible_Trade_around_the_Atlantic_16601799 11.2_pp_94_124_Prop_of_the_State_Biblical_Criticism_and_the_Forensic_Authority_of_the_Bible 11.3_pp_125_154_Object_of_Intimacy_Devotional_Uses_of_the_Eighteenth-Century_Bible 12.0_pp_155_261_Uses_of_Scripture_for_Fiction 12.1_pp_157_178_Traveling_Papers_Pilgrims_Progress_and_the_Book 12.2_pp_179_201_Surprised_by_Providence_Robinson_Crusoe_as_Defoes_Theory_of_Fiction 12.3_pp_202_230_Resilient_to_Narrative_Clarissa_after_Reading 12.4_pp_231_257_Breaking_Down_Shame_Narrating_Trauma_and_Repair_in_Tristram_Shandy 12.5_pp_258_261_Conclusion 13.1_pp_262_263_The_appearance_of_the_Bible_as_a_physical_object_in_Early_English_Prose_Fiction_EEPF_and_Eighteenth- 13.2_pp_264_265_The_appearance_of_the_Bible_as_a_physical_object_prose_fiction_in_English_Eighteenth-Century_Collect 13.3_pp_266_267_Appendix_3 13.4_pp_268_269_Appendix_4 13.5_pp_270_271_Appendix_5 14.0_pp_272_295_Notes 15.0_pp_296_319_Works_Cited index (1)
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