Reading an Erased Code: Romantic Religion and Literary Aesthetics in France

by Michel Despland

The end of the eighteenth century, an age of political and cultural crisis particularly in France, saw a shift in the meaning of belief. Simply put, a break in continuity occurred between the old, religious and a new, literary reading of Scripture. Michel Despland selects five writers who were caught up in this new reading of the old religious text and who came to write about religion in innovative ways: Jean-Jacques Roussean, Fran ois-Ren de...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487571682
• ISBN13: 9781487571689
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"