id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 37720c50t6k Meagan K. Simpson Fictionalizing Adam and Eve in Nineteenth-Century British Literature 2019 .txt text/plain 258 7 30 By annexing Adam and Eve into fictional texts, nineteenth-century writers suggest that referentiality need not be conceptualized as an either/or scheme, but rather allows for more complicated configuration in which any given referent can be nonliteral and still deeply meaningful. In its place, scientific empiricism offers an alternative interpretation, one which holds any referent, including Adam and Eve, can either be literally real and therefore incapable of conferring such grand cosmological meaning or else purely mythical and therefore only valuable within the closed system of its text. cache/37720c50t6k.txt txt/37720c50t6k.txt