The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age. “This book is a formidable attempt to articulate issues of almost imponderable centrality for modern life ...

Richly illustrated with nearly 100 images, including paintings, engravings, woodcuts, and a representative selection of architectural floor plans for domestic interiors, this volume reads graphic forms to emphasize how susceptible the ...

It also shows how the Enlightenment has shaped our views of both tradition and modernity, and the revisionary work that needs to be done in order to understand our place in the future.

Poststructuralist ideology has propounded for the novel a contradictory “novel tradition”—realism, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism—whose stages both constitute a sequence and collapse it, each stage claiming the innovation ...

This book "historicizes" the British Enlightenment, 1650-1800, as the beginning of the modern world by reconstructing what it was like to live through the emergence of concepts and practices that have come to define the character of daily ...

This book is able to lead someone to an assurance that they have been forgiven and saved from sin and an eternity without God, (who is Love 1 John 4:8), to an eternity with Love.

Then the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, foryou have found favor with God.

If you are already a Christian this book will give you a greater appreciation and understanding of redemption through the scriptures so you can share it with others.