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Sacred Engagements - Interfaith Marriage, Religious Toleration, and the British Novel, 1750-1820 (Paperback)
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Sacred Engagements - Interfaith Marriage, Religious Toleration, and the British Novel, 1750-1820 (Paperback)
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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 vexed questions that interfaith marriage continues to
raise today. She argues that narrative wields the power to imagine
conjugal and religious relations that support the embodied politics
crucial to a communal, rather than state-sponsored, ethics of
toleration. Conway studies the communal and gendered aspects of
religious experience embedded in Samuel Richardson's account of
interfaith marriage and liberalism's understandings of toleration
in Sir Charles Grandison. In her readings of Frances Brooke,
Elizabeth Inchbald, and Maria Edgeworth, Conway considers how women
authors reframe the questions posed by Grandison, representing
intimacy, authorship, and women's religious subjectivity in ways
that challenge the social and political norms of Protestant British
culture. She concludes with reflections on Jane Austen's Mansfield
Park and the costs of a marriage plot that insists on religious
conformity. By examining the complex epistemologies of the
interfaith marriage plot, Sacred Engagements counters the
secularization thesis that has long dominated eighteenth-century
novel studies. In so doing, the book recognizes those subjects
otherwise ignored by liberal political theory and extrapolates how
a genuinely inclusive tolerance might be imagined in our own deeply
divided times.
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