LEADER 02937oam 2200625 c 450 001 9910962443703321 005 20251202090341.0 010 $a3-657-70342-X 024 7 $a10.30965/9783657703425 035 $a(CKB)4100000010136586 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9783657703425 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6517126 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6517126 035 $a(OCoLC)1243549054 035 $a(Brill | Scho?ningh)9783657703425 035 $a(Brill | Schöningh)9783657703425 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010136586 100 $a20251202d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEmpirical Form and Religious Function$eApparition Narratives of the Early English Enlightenment$fMichael Dopffel, Jan Stievermann, Matthias Bauer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPaderborn$cBrill | Schöningh$d2020 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aBeiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur$v38 311 08$a3-506-70342-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [303]-325) and index. 330 $aEmpirical Form and Religious Function provides a fresh perspective on the rise of empirical apparition narratives in the Anglophone world of the Early Enlightenment era. Drawing on both well-established and previously unknown sources, Michael Dopffel here offers a fundamental reappraisal of one of the defining narrative genres of the 17th and 18th centuries. Intricately connected to evolving discourses of natural philosophy, Protestant religion and popular literature, the apparition narratives portrayed in this work constitute a hybrid genre whose interpretations and literary functions retained the ambiguity of their subject matter. Simultaneously an empirically approachable phenomena and a religious experience, witnesses and writers translated the spiritual characteristics of apparitions into distinct literary forms, thereby shaping conceptions of ghosts, whether factual or fictional, to this day. 410 0$aBeitra?ge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur;$v38. 606 $aEnglische Frühaufklärung 606 $aGeistererzählungen 606 $aNaturphilosophie 606 $aLiteratur und Religion 606 $aTransatlantische Ideengeschichte 606 $aThe Gothic 615 4$aEnglische Frühaufklärung 615 4$aGeistererzählungen 615 4$aNaturphilosophie 615 4$aLiteratur und Religion 615 4$aTransatlantische Ideengeschichte 615 4$aThe Gothic 676 $a420 700 $aDopffel$b Michael$4aut$01837226 702 $aStievermann$b Jan$4edt 702 $aBauer$b Matthias$4edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962443703321 996 $aEmpirical Form and Religious Function$94415702 997 $aUNINA