Empirical Form and Religious Function: Apparition Narratives of the Early English Enlightenment: 38 (Beiträge Zur Englischen Und Amerikanischen Literatur) - Softcover

Dopffel, Michael

 
9783506703422: Empirical Form and Religious Function: Apparition Narratives of the Early English Enlightenment: 38 (Beiträge Zur Englischen Und Amerikanischen Literatur)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3506703420 ISBN 13: 9783506703422
Publisher: Brill U Schoningh, 2020

Synopsis

Empirical Form and Religious Function provides a fresh perspective on the rise of empirical apparition narratives in the Anglophone world of the Early Enlightenment era. Drawing on both well-established and previously unknown sources, Michael Dopffel here offers a fundamental reappraisal of one of the defining narrative genres of the 17th and 18th centuries. Intricately connected to evolving discourses of natural philosophy, Protestant religion and popular literature, the apparition narratives portrayed in this work constitute a hybrid genre whose interpretations and literary functions retained the ambiguity of their subject matter. Simultaneously an empirically approachable phenomena and a religious experience, witnesses and writers translated the spiritual characteristics of apparitions into distinct literary forms, thereby shaping conceptions of ghosts, whether factual or fictional, to this day.

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About the Author

Michael Dopffel was a research assistant at the Universities of Tubingen and Heidelberg and a member of the graduate college aHoly Texts at the University of Tubingen. He is currently a freelance author.

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Publisher
Brill U Schoningh
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3506703420
ISBN 13 
9783506703422
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
340