{"product_id":"sacred-engagements-interfaith-marriage-religious-toleration-and-the-british-novel-1750-1820-9781421445151","title":"Sacred Engagements: Interfaith Marriage, Religious Toleration, and the British Novel, 1750-1820","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory reading of the British novel that considers interfaith marriage, religious toleration, and the ethics of sociability.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together feminist theory, novel criticism, and religious studies, Alison Conway's \u003ci\u003eSacred Engagements\u003c\/i\u003e advances a postsecular reading of the novel that links religious tolerance and the eighteenth-century marriage plot. Conway explores the historical roots of the vexed questions that interfaith marriage continues to raise today. She argues that narrative wields the power to imagine conjugal and religious relations that support the embodied politics crucial to a communal, rather than state-sponsored, ethics of toleration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConway studies the communal and gendered aspects of religious experience embedded in Samuel Richardson's account of interfaith marriage and liberalism's understandings of toleration in \u003ci\u003eSir Charles Grandison\u003c\/i\u003e. In her readings of Frances Brooke, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Maria Edgeworth, Conway considers how women authors reframe the questions posed by \u003ci\u003eGrandison\u003c\/i\u003e, representing intimacy, authorship, and women's religious subjectivity in ways that challenge the social and political norms of Protestant British culture. She concludes with reflections on Jane Austen's \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e and the costs of a marriage plot that insists on religious conformity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy examining the complex epistemologies of the interfaith marriage plot, \u003ci\u003eSacred Engagements\u003c\/i\u003e counters the secularization thesis that has long dominated eighteenth-century novel studies. In so doing, the book recognizes those subjects otherwise ignored by liberal political theory and extrapolates how a genuinely inclusive tolerance might be imagined in our own deeply divided times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15545303\"\u003eAlison Conway\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421445151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421445158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT025040\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Religion\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT024030\"\u003eModern | 18th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004120\"\u003eEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Conway\u003c\/b\u003e (KELOWNA, BC) is Associate Dean of Research, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePrivate Interests: Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791 \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Protestant Whore: Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44432347365613,"sku":"9781421445151","price":55.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_8c88ad8a-f091-40f8-9f0b-d74c022a1bf6.jpg?v=1700042116","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/sacred-engagements-interfaith-marriage-religious-toleration-and-the-british-novel-1750-1820-9781421445151","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}