{"product_id":"fictions-of-god-english-renaissance-literature-and-the-invention-of-the-biblical-narrator-9780226842219","title":"Fictions of God: English Renaissance Literature and the Invention of the Biblical Narrator","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new history of literary narration rooted in the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We often identify secularization's characteristic literary form as the modern novel: out with divine scripture, in with human fictions. In \u003ci\u003eFictions of God\u003c\/i\u003e, Raphael Magarik argues that this story overlooks the cultural upheavals of the Protestant Reformation. Early reformers imagined a Bible that was neither infallible nor inerrant but fictional, composed by a divine counterfactual: God crafted the text, they said, as if it had been written by the prophets. Early modern Protestants now found in their Bibles not a source of foundational truths but a model for unreliable narration, even fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFictions of God\u003c\/i\u003e traces how this approach to literature passed from biblical commentators to poets like Abraham Cowley, John Milton, and Lucy Hutchinson amid the violent emergence of a new religious and political order--long before the eighteenth-century rise of the English novel. The result is a transformative account of the Reformation's effect on imaginative literature and the secularization of the Bible itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagarik, Raphael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eRaphael Magarik\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967086231826,"sku":"9780226842219","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_25dacec7-6097-4c25-949c-6d3fe134187b.jpg?v=1768924824","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fictions-of-god-english-renaissance-literature-and-the-invention-of-the-biblical-narrator-9780226842219","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}