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 establishes the importance of "Genesis" within utopian thinking, in particular the influential models of Milton and Rousseau; and she demonstrates that the power of these models can be explained neither by traditional religious paradigms nor by those of religion or philosophy. In establishing the relationship between biblical criticism and republican utopias, Acosta makes a solid case that important utopian visions are better understood against the background of "Genesis" interpretation. This study opens a new perspective on theories of secularization, and as such will interest scholars of religious studies, intellectual history, and philosophy as well as of literary studies.
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Ana M. Acosta is Assistant Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA. She has published a number of articles on topics related to religion and enlightenment in the long eighteenth century and is currently at work on a book on the intersection between medical discourse and the religious epistemologies of Catholicism and Protestantism during the same period.
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It has long preoccupied biblical exegetes that there are two quite different versions of creation in the opening of Genesis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prelapsarian life, utopian consciousness, unnatural society, long eighteenth century, documentary hypothesis, outer nature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mary Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Cambridge University Press, Old Testament, Speculative Beginnings, Oxford University Press, Hebrew Bible, Milton's Eden, Mary Wollstonecraft, Princeton University Press, Jean Jaques, Harvard University Press, University of Chicago Press, City of God, Jean Astruc, New Testament, Rights of Woman, Robinson Crusoe, Victor Frankenstein, New World, University of California Press, French Revolution, Johns Hopkins University Press, New Haven New!
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It has long preoccupied biblical exegetes that there are two quite different versions of creation in the opening of Genesis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prelapsarian life, utopian consciousness, unnatural society, long eighteenth century, documentary hypothesis, outer nature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mary Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Cambridge University Press, Old Testament, Speculative Beginnings, Oxford University Press, Hebrew Bible, Milton's Eden, Mary Wollstonecraft, Princeton University Press, Jean Jaques, Harvard University Press, University of Chicago Press, City of God, Jean Astruc, New Testament, Rights of Woman, Robinson Crusoe, Victor Frankenstein, New World, University of California Press, French Revolution, Johns Hopkins University Press, New Haven New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 37 pages
- The Rights of Woman (Phoenix Sixties) by Mary Wollstonecraft on 8 pages
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dover Thrift Editions) by Mary Wollstonecraft on 7 pages
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft on 6 pages
- Mary Wollstonecraft by Janet Todd on page 154, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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