Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel - Paperbackby David Mark Diamond (Author) How Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth century novel has been well documented. They are two dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between the external and the internal. In Reading Character after Calvin, David Mark Diamond traces the religious