Author: Job OrtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Letters from the Rev. Sir J. Stonhouse to the Rev. Thomas Stedman, 2d ed
Author: Job OrtonA Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Letters from the Rev. Mr. Job Orton, and the Rev. Sir James Stonhouse, Bart. M.D. to the Rev. Thomas Stedman
Author: Job OrtonDiscourses to the aged; on several important subjects ... The fourth edition
Author: Job ORTONVanity Fair and the Celestial City
Author: Isabel RiversPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019254263X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth century, and of the dramatic expansion of popular publishing. Similarly, much has been written on the extraordinary effects of the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century in Britain, Europe, and North America. But how did popular religious culture and the world of print interact? It is now known that religious works formed the greater part of the publishing market for most of the century. What religious books were read, and how? Who chose them? How did they get into people's hands? Vanity Fair and the Celestial City is the first book to answer these questions in detail. It explores the works written, edited, abridged, and promoted by evangelical dissenters, Methodists both Arminian and Calvinist, and Church of England evangelicals in the period 1720 to 1800. Isabel Rivers also looks back to earlier sources and forward to the continued republication of many of these works well into the nineteenth century. The first part is concerned with the publishing and distribution of religious books by commercial booksellers and not-for-profit religious societies, and the means by which readers obtained them and how they responded to what they read. The second part shows that some of the most important publications were new versions of earlier nonconformist, episcopalian, Roman Catholic, and North American works. The third part explores the main literary kinds, including annotated bibles, devotional guides, exemplary lives, and hymns. Building on many years' research into the religious literature of the period, Rivers discusses over two hundred writers and provides detailed case studies of popular and influential works.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Naval Surgeon ; Comprising the Entire Duties of Professional Men at Sea...
Author: William TurnbullA Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: William UpcottPublisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures Belonging to the Most Honourable the Marquis of Stafford, in the Gallery of Cleveland House
Author: George Granville Leveson-Gower Duke of SutherlandPublisher:
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Category : Cleveland House (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description