Set during a volatile, dynamic and factionary moment in eighteenth-century Western history, when religion must make way to reason and science, Ingenious Pain historically dramatizes the friction between the embedded thinking of its time and the rise of a new philosophic project: the Age of Enlightenment. How is the opposition of science and religion thematically played out in Andrew Miller’s historical fiction?
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