Romantic prayer : reinventing the poetics of devotion, 1773-1832 / Christopher Stokes

Author:: Stokes, Christopher, 1981-
Published:: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:: First edition.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (256 pages).

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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, poetry - a form with its own interlinked history with prayer - was a unique place to register what prayer meant in modernity. This study illustrates how the discourse of prayer continually intervened in the way that poetic practices evolved and responded to the religious and secular questions of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century moment.

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9780191890420 (ebook)

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Specialized.

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This edition also issued in print: 2021.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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