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Print Price: $115.50

Format:
Hardback
300 pp.
8 b/w halftones, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199269587

Publication date:
May 2016

Imprint: OUP UK


Secular Chains

Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope

Philip Connell

Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual authority were variously challenged and transformed. Philip Connell reveals the importance of English literary culture for our understanding of this process, and throws new light on the dynamics of change and continuity management of these issues , an organization could seek to develop and maintain sustainable global competitiveness. The book aims to equip students with some of the most current knowledge and practical skills to help them make key management decisions in the increasingly dynamic and challenging global trading environment.As well as covering long-standing topics, the book focuses on contemporary issues in global marketing management, including the increasing significance of the s ervice sector, accelerating changes in technologies, managing marketing relationships, managing knowledge assets and the need for more socially responsible and ethical practicesExcellent pedagogical features throughout the text, with both short and long case materials which cover all sizes and types of organizations as well as less developed and more developed countriesEuropean perspectiveStrong focus on the service sector reflecting the rapid emergence of the global service econom Newtonian natural theology. Secular Chains demonstrates the close and continued relationship between poetry and religious politics in the age of Milton and Pope, and provides a new framework for understanding this complex and turbulent period in English literary history.

Readership : Students and scholars of early modern literature; historians with an interest in the period.

Introduction
PART I: COMMONWEALTH
1. 'Hireling wolves': Poetry, Prophecy and Republican Religion
PART II: RESTORATION
2. The Failure of Uniformity
3. 'Priests of all Religions are the same': Dryden and the Politics of Irreligion
PART III: ENLIGHTENMENT
4. Whig Poetics and the Church in Danger
5. The Literature of Physico-Theology
6. Alexander Pope and the Modes of Faith
Coda: Pope, Milton, Modernity

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Philip Connell was educated at the University of Liverpool and completed his Ph.D. at King's College, Cambridge. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English and a Fellow of Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on English literature and its contexts between 1650 and 1840, with a particular emphasis upon interdisciplinary studies in the fields of poetry, politics, and intellectual history.

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Special Features

  • Works across a range of historical fields: literary, political, intellectual, religious.
  • Ranges across literary and historical periods often considered discontinuous or distinct.
  • Employs a wide range of published and archival sources.
  • The arguments of each chapter are grounded in a connected historical narrative.
  • Historical argument is complemented by sustained close readings of important poetic texts