{"product_id":"words-made-flesh-sean-dempsey-9780813948126","title":"Words Made Flesh: Formations of the Postsecular in British Romanticism","description":"\u003cp\u003eReligion is not merely a different way of thinking but is rather an alternative manner of being--it is both a way of attending to the world and a form of embodiment. Literature provides another key to legislating new ways of being in the world. Some of the best Romantic literature can be understood as experimental attempts to access and harness infrasensible energy--affects and dispositions operating beneath the threshold of consciousness--in the hope that by so doing it may become possible to project elusive affects into the practical world of conscious thinking and judgment. \u003ci\u003eWords Made Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley and the novelist Jane Austen affect, mediate, and ultimately alter our very sense of embodiment in ways that have lasting effects on readers' affective, political, and spiritual lives. Such works, which unsettle habitual ways of seeing, are perennially valuable because they not only call attention to the dispositions we normally inhabit, but they also suggest ways of forging new patterns and forms of life through the medium of embodiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the work of these writers, Dempsey argues that Romanticism's contribution to our understanding of the postsecular becomes clearer when considered in relation to three timely scholarly conversations not previously synthesized: secular and postsecular studies, affect theory, and media studies. By weaving together these three strands, \u003ci\u003eWords Made Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e clarifies how Romanticism provides a useful field guide to the new geography of the self ushered in by secular modernity, while also pointing toward potential postsecular futures. Ultimately, Dempsey argues for a view of literature that recognizes it as an essential component to ethical practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean Dempsey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813948126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813948126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d","brand":"Sean Dempsey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070855344383,"sku":"9780813948126","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c146d88e-a910-4a2f-ab2c-d67bafda95d6.jpg?v=1685432725","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/words-made-flesh-sean-dempsey-9780813948126","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}