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- Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660–1780
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
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A distinguished critic traces the growing, but always threatened, trend toward political and religious tolerance from the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth century in Britain.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLLiterature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660–1780 chronicles changes in contentious politics and religion and their varied representations in British letters from the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. An uncertain trend toward tolerance and away from painful discord significantly influenced authors who reflected on and enhanced germane aspects of British literary and intellectual life. The movement was stymied during the painful Gordon Riots in June 1780, from which Britain needed to repair itself.Howard D. Weinbrot's broad-ranging interdisciplinary study considers sermons, satire, political and religious polemic, Anglo-French relations, biblical and theological commentary, Methodism, legal history, and the novel. Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660–1780 analyzes the texts and contexts of several major and minor authors, including Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Olaudah Equiano, Maria De Fleury, Lord George Gordon, Nathaniel Lancaster, Henry Sacheverell, Tobias Smollett, and Edward Synge.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Part I. Threats to the Species: Madness, Discontent, and the Danger of Dissolution
- Part II. Taking the Cure and Improving the Species: Sermons, Compulsion, and Methodists
- Part III. Evolutionary Reversion: The Gordon Riots, Return to Rage, and Reinventing a Cure
- Conclusion, Summary, Implications
- pp. 343-356
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421408606
Related ISBN(s)
9781421405162
MARC Record
OCLC
832316068
Pages
392
Launched on MUSE
2013-08-12
Language
English
Open Access
No