Description: In recovering the centrality of the afterlife to eighteenth-century culture, this prizewinning book offers a versatile and wide-ranging argument that will speak not only to literary scholars but to historians, scholars of religion, and all readers interested in the power of literature to preserve human experience through time.
Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Review Quotes:
Exceptionally well written, Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 is unfailingly clear, lively, and engaging. It presents its most complex ideas--concerning, say, theological controversy about the state of the soul after death--with grace and concision.
--Adam Potkay, College of William and Mary, author of Wordsworth's Ethics