03073oam 2200661 c 450 991079392070332120220221094418.03-657-70342-X10.30965/9783657703425(CKB)4100000010136586(OCoLC)1130391962(nllekb)BRILL9783657703425(MiAaPQ)EBC6517126(Au-PeEL)EBL6517126(OCoLC)1243549054(Brill | Schöningh)9783657703425(EXLCZ)99410000001013658620220221d2020 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrierEmpirical Form and Religious FunctionApparition Narratives of the Early English EnlightenmentMichael Dopffel, Jan Stievermann, Matthias Bauer1st ed.PaderbornBrill | Schöningh20201 online resourceBeiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur383-506-70342-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-325) and index.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.Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur;38.Englische FrühaufklärungGeistererzählungenNaturphilosophieLiteratur und ReligionTransatlantische IdeengeschichteThe GothicCriticism, interpretation, etc.fastLiterary criticism.fastLiterary criticism.lcgftEnglische FrühaufklärungGeistererzählungenNaturphilosophieLiteratur und ReligionTransatlantische IdeengeschichteThe Gothic420Dopffel Michaelaut1572439Stievermann JanedtBauer MatthiasedtMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793920703321Empirical Form and Religious Function3847379UNINA