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Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel - The Bible in English Fiction 1678-1767 (Hardcover)
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Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel - The Bible in English Fiction 1678-1767 (Hardcover)
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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.
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