Unquiet Things: Secularism in the Romantic Age

by Colin Jager

In Great Britain during the Romantic period, governmental and social structures were becoming more secular as religion was privatized and depoliticized. If the discretionary nature of religious practice permitted spiritual freedom and social differentiation, however, secular arrangements produced new anxieties. Unquiet Things investigates the social and political disorders that arise within modern secular cultures and their expression in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812246640
• ISBN13: 9780812246643
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"