Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Diamond, David Mark
Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Diamond, David Mark

Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

How Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the...
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Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Diamond, David Mark

Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

$404.59
Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Diamond, David Mark

Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

$404.59
Author: David Mark Diamond
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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How Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism

The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between the external and the internal. In Reading Character after Calvin, David Mark Diamond traces the religious genealogy of such figures, arguing that two-dimensionality reproduces through form a model of interpretation that originates in Calvinist Protestant theology.

In Calvin's teachings, every person possessed a spiritual status as saved or damned, and their external features ostensibly reflected this inward condition. This belief, however, was always haunted by the possibility of a discrepancy between the two. Diamond shows how Calvinism survives in the pages of early novels as a guide to discerning religious hypocrisy and, eventually, distinctions related to imperial race-making. He tracks the migration of Calvinist character detection from its original, sectarian contexts to the worlds of eighteenth-century fiction, revealing the process by which religion came unbound from doctrinal orthodoxy and was grafted onto the ambition of racialized global dominion.

Analyzing a diverse set of texts, Diamond offers a fresh account of both how literary character worked and how it works to naturalize, question, or critique the violence of empire.

Author: David Mark Diamond
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 04/01/2024
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780813950884

About the Author
David Mark Diamond is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia.
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