{"title":"David Mark Diamond","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"reading-character-after-calvin-book-david-mark-diamond-9780813950891","title":"Reading Character After Calvin","description":"The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between the external and the internal. In tis volume, David Mark Diamond traces the religious genealogy of such figures.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49753939181841,"sku":"NGR9780813950891","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52616419737873,"sku":"NLS9780813950891","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813950899.jpg?v=1763476405"},{"product_id":"reading-character-after-calvin-book-david-mark-diamond-9780813950884","title":"Reading Character After Calvin","description":"How Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism   The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between the external and the internal. In Reading Character after Calvin, David Mark Diamond traces the religious genealogy of such figures, arguing that two-dimensionality reproduces through form a model of interpretation that originates in Calvinist Protestant theology.   In Calvin’s teachings, every person possessed a spiritual status as saved or damned, and their external features ostensibly reflected this inward condition. This belief, however, was always haunted by the possibility of a discrepancy between the two. Diamond shows how Calvinism survives in the pages of early novels as a guide to discerning religious hypocrisy and, eventually, distinctions related to imperial race-making. He tracks the migration of Calvinist character detection from its original, sectarian contexts to the worlds of eighteenth-century fiction, revealing the process by which religion came unbound from doctrinal orthodoxy and was grafted onto the ambition of racialized global dominion.   Analyzing a diverse set of texts, Diamond offers a fresh account of both how literary character worked and how it works to naturalize, question, or critique the violence of empire.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52615958724881,"sku":"NLS9780813950884","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780813950884.jpg?v=1763482577"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-david-mark-diamond.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}