Believing 18th-Century Fiction: Reading Novelism and Theology in Thomas Amory's The Life of John Buncle, ESQ (1756)

Critical studies of religion and fiction in the eighteenth century have tended to centre either on the relationship between the major novelists and the contemporary currents of deism or latitudinarianism, or on the ways in which the novel came to rival the pamphlet and the sermon as a testing-ground...

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Published in:Literature and theology
Main Author: Haslett, Moyra (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2018]
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Pages: 434-451
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
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