Revising Life Through Literature: Dialogical Change from the Reformation Through Postmodernism

By Joyce Brotton

After the Reformation, science superseded both religion and literature as the favored source of knowledge. As people became free of a catechism of rote responses, they found the concept of self-determination both liberating and terrifying. Literature stepped in by providing examples of fictional characters that made choices in circumstances similar to the quandaries faced by readers_situations that could not be easily resolved by scripture alone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810857197
• ISBN13: 9780810857193
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"