Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • apa.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Secularization and Empowerment. Four Poems on Theodicy: The Enlightenment Debate at the European Centre and the Swedish Periphery
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Language, Literature and Intercultural Studies (from 2013). (Kulturvetenskapliga forskargruppen)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6798-1902
2018 (English)In: Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning, ISSN 0013-0818, E-ISSN 1500-1989, Vol. 105, no 1, p. 29-43Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article analyses four 18th-century poems on the issues of theodicy and a moral world order, which were central to Enlightenment discourse and to figureheads such as Bayle, Leibniz, Voltaire and Hume. Theodicy was discussed in the leading countries of culture, England and France, as well as in peripheral countries like Switzerland and Sweden. The main focus is on the Swedish poet Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht. A comparison of Nordenflycht’s poems with those of Pope, von Haller and Voltaire makes clear that Nordenflycht actively engaged with the works of these leading figures, thus contributing to the worldview debate in the Enlightenment era.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. Vol. 105, no 1, p. 29-43
Keywords [en]
Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Leibniz, Secularisation, Problem of Theodicy, Enlightenment, Voltaire
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
Comparative Literature
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66681DOI: 10.18261/issn.1500-1989-2018-01-03OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-66681DiVA, id: diva2:1190131
Available from: 2018-03-13 Created: 2018-03-13 Last updated: 2022-06-29Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(1089 kB)291 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 1089 kBChecksum SHA-512
96736527d99ab63ecfba4665eb6d33ee18b933cba35b64dc3e41a57d9ca2951023e4612ce61eee4d3ad783adbd90b5088f521f2a7550a796733e33aabd4cfc94
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full text

Authority records

Blomqvist, Helene

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Blomqvist, Helene
By organisation
Department of Language, Literature and Intercultural Studies (from 2013)
In the same journal
Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning
Languages and Literature

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 291 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 524 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • apa.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf