 | Unquiet Things: Secularism in the Romantic Age Reading 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. Colin Jager is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University and author of The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
