Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England

Philip C. Almond

Cambridge University Press, Jun 24, 1994 - Literary Criticism - 218 pages

This book examines life after death and changing concepts of heaven and hell in English thought from 1650 to 1750. It explores seventeenth- and eighteenth-century images of the journey of body and soul. It discloses a society in which frail and fleeting human life was lived out in the expectation of salvation or damnation.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England
• Author: Philip C. Almond
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994
• ISBN: 0521453712, 9780521453714
• Length: 218 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Religion; Religion / Christian Theology / Eschatology; Religion / General