Divine in the Commonplace

Amy M. King

earliest edition we have, 2019 Cambridge University Press, 2019 322 pages

"Realism has long been associated with the secular, but in early nineteenth-century England a realist genre existed that was highly theological: popular natural histories informed by natural theology. The Divine in the Commonplace explores the 'reverent empiricism' of English natural history and how it conceives observation and description as a kind of devotion or act of reverence. Focusing on the texts of popular na...

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Divine in the Commonplace edition · 2021 · University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations · 9781108730181
Divine in the Commonplace edition · 2019 · Cambridge University Press · 322 pages · 9781108492959
Divine in the Commonplace edition · 2019 · Cambridge University Press · 9781108631952

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