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Book SynopsisReading works by Austen, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley among others, Unquiet Things investigates the social and political disorders that arise within modern secular cultures. Jager demonstrates the distinctive ability of literary writing to register the uneasiness and anxiety that characterize the mood of secular modernity.
Trade Review"This is an impressively researched study of the interplay of history, religion, politics, culture, and literature from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It is also a vigorously engaged intervention in these matters as they continue to play out in our own day." * Edward Duffy,
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"Through a wonderful set of readings, Colin Jager makes vital claims about secularity and the specters that haunt it-in literature, and perhaps in the very articulation of the literary itself." * Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School *
