Format:
268 Seiten
ISBN:
9781487501792
Content:
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 the eighteenth-century novel, 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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Imagining religious toleration Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2019 ISBN 9781487513962
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Conway, Alison Imagining Religious Toleration Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2019 ISBN 9781487513962
Language:
English
Keywords:
Englisch
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Religiöse Toleranz
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Literatur
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Geschichte 1600-1830
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung