Words Made Flesh: Formations of the Postsecular in British Romanticism

by sean dempsey

Book Overview

Religion is not merely a different way of thinking but is rather an alternative manner of being--it is both a way of attending to the world and a form of embodiment. Literature provides another key to legislating new ways of being in the world. Some of the best Romantic literature can be understood as experimental attempts to access and harness infrasensible energy--affects and dispositions operating beneath the threshold of consciousness--in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813948126
• ISBN13: 9780813948126
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"