Romantic Prayer: Reinventing the Poetics of Devotion, 1773-1832

by Christopher Stokes

Whilst religion and the secular have been continually debated contexts for literature of the Romantic era, the dominant scholarly focus has been on doctrines and denominations. In analysing the motif of devotion, Romantic Prayer shifts attention to the quintessential articulation of religion as lived experience, as practice, and as a performative rather than descriptive phenomenon. In an era when the tenability and rationality of prayer was much contested,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198857802
• ISBN13: 9780198857808
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"