Latitudinarianism and Didacticism in Eighteenth-Century Literature : Moral Theology in Fielding, Sterne, and Goldsmith Hardback
by Patrick Muller
Part of the Muensteraner Monographien zur englischen Literatur / Muenster Monographs on English Literature series
Hardback
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The relationship between Latitudinarian moral theology and eighteenth-century literature has been much debated among scholars.
However, this issue can only be tackled if the exact objectives of the Latitudinarians’ moral theology are clearly delineated.
In doing so, Patrick Müller unveils the intricate connection between the didactic bias of Latitudinarianism and the resurgent interest in didactic literary genres in the first half of the eighteenth century.
His study sheds new light on the complex and contradictory reception of the Latitudinarians’ controversial theses in the work of three of the major eighteenth-century novelists: Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and Oliver Goldsmith.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:426 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date:19/01/2009
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- ISBN:9783631591161
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:426 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date:19/01/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9783631591161
