TY - BOOK ID - 119293556 TI - The postsecular restoration and the making of literary conservatism PY - 2023 SN - 1009273493 1009273469 1009273485 1009273477 PB - Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Conservatism KW - Politics and literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Literature KW - Literature and politics KW - Conservativism KW - Neo-conservatism KW - New Right KW - Right (Political science) KW - Political science KW - Sociology KW - Political aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119293556 AB - This book reveals a synergy between postsecularity - as a critique of emergent liberal secular ideals and practices - and the modern literary sphere, in which conservative writers feature prominently. Corrinne Harol argues boldly yet compellingly that influential literary forms and practices including fiction, mental freedom, worlding, reading, narration, and historical fiction are in fact derived from these writers' responses to secularization. Interrogating a series of concepts - faith, indulgence, figuring, reading, passivity, revolution, and nostalgia - central to secular culture, this study also engages with works by Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Margaret Cavendish and Walter Scott, as well as attending to the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and Edmund Burke. Countering eighteenth-century studies' current overreliance on the secularization narrative (as content and method, fact and norm), this book models how a postsecular approach can help us to understand this period, and secularization itself, more fully. ER -