Words made flesh : formations of the postsecular in British Romanticism /

Words Made Flesh demonstrates how the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley and the novelist Jane Austen affect, mediate, and ultimately alter our sense of self and embodiment in ways that not only feel profound but also have lasting effects on readers' aff...

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Main Author: Dempsey, Sean, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2022].
Series:Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
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Summary:Words Made Flesh demonstrates how the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley and the novelist Jane Austen affect, mediate, and ultimately alter our sense of self and embodiment in ways that not only feel profound but also have lasting effects on readers' affective, political and spiritual lives. The author draws in particular on secular and postsecular studies, affect theory and media studies.
Physical Description:xii, 329 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813948119
0813948118
9780813948126
0813948126