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Fictions of God: English Renaissance Literature and the Invention of the Biblical Narrator
By (author) Raphael Magarik
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A new history of literary narration rooted in the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation.  We often identify secularization's characteristic literary form as the modern novel: out with divine scripture, in with human fictions. In Fictions of God, 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. Fictions of God 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.
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Publisher | The University of Chicago Press
Published date | 19 Nov 2025
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 272
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 454g
ISBN | 978-0-2268-4223-3
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BISAC | religion / bible / study / manners & customs
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