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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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“Michael Rectenwald’s Nineteenth-Century British Secularism is an impressively lucid, balanced, and wide-ranging engagement with the implications of recent challenges to both modern secularism and the secularisation thesis for our understanding of Victorian literature and culture. Placing the often-overlooked organised Secularist movement at the centre of the narrative enables Rectenwald to advance us beyond critical clichés about Victorian doubt and a ‘crisis of faith’ and to do justice to the prescience and complexity of Victorian thinking about the concepts of secularism and secularisation.” (Sara Lyons, Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Kent, UK and author of Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater: Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation (2015))
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Rectenwald is Professor of Global Liberal Studies at New York University, USA. He is editor of Global Secularisms in A Post-Secular Age (2015) and Academic Writing, Real World Topics (2015). He has published essays on secularism in The British Journal for the History of Science, The International Philosophical Quarterly, and George Eliot in Context.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nineteenth-Century British Secularism
Book Subtitle: Science, Religion and Literature
Authors: Michael Rectenwald
Series Title: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137463890
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46388-3Published: 08 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69061-9Published: 29 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46389-0Published: 08 March 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-3351
Series E-ISSN: 2946-336X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 257
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Philosophy, History of Science, Modern History, Social History, Secularism