Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley

by Ana M. Acosta

In a reassessment of the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment, Ana Acosta here traces a tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and Scriptural language from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Acosta's interdisciplinary approach places these writers in the broader context of eighteenth-century political theory, biblical criticism, religious studies and utopianism. Acosta's argument is twofold: she...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138379166
• ISBN13: 9781138379169
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"