The Divine in the Commonplace

by Amy M King

Book Overview

Realism has long been associated with the secular, but in early nineteenth-century England a realist genre existed that was highly theological: popular natural histories informed by natural theology. The Divine in the Commonplace explores the 'reverent empiricism' of English natural history and how it conceives observation and description as a kind of devotion or act of reverence. Focusing on the texts of popular natural historians, especially seashore...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108492959
• ISBN13: 9781108492959
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.7" x 8.7"