Imagining Religious Toleration: A Literary History of an Idea, 1600-1830 - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 148750179X ISBN 13 : 9781487501792

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2019

Synopsis

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 Conway, David Alvarez, and their contributors shed light on what literature can say about toleration, and how it can produce and manage feelings of tolerance and intolerance.

Beginning with an overview of the historical debates surrounding the terms "toleration" and "tolerance," this book moves on to discuss the specific contributions that literature and literary modes have made to cultural history, studying the literary techniques that philosophers, theologians, and political theorists used to frame the questions central to the idea and practice of religious toleration. Tracing the rhetoric employed by a wide range of authors, the contributors delve into topics such as conversion as an instrument of power in Shakespeare; the relationship between religious toleration and the rise of Enlightenment satire; and the ways in which writing can act as a call for tolerance.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Alison Conway is Professor of English and Cultural Studies, and of Gender and Women's Studies, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.


David Alvarez is Associate Professor and Chair of English at DePauw University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 148750179X
• ISBN 13: 9781487501792
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Conway Alison, Alvarez David
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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