Author: George LavingtonPublisher:
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Category : Enthusiasm
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
The Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists Considered. With Notes, Introduction, and Appendix by ... R. Polwhele
Author: George LavingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enthusiasm
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
The Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists Considered
Author: George LavingtonPublisher:
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Richard Polwhele and Romantic Culture
Author: Dafydd MoorePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000287564
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Richard Polwhele was a writer of rare energies. Today known only for The Unsex’d Females and its attack on radical women writers, Polwhele was a historian, translator, memoirist, and poet. As an indigent Cornish gentleman clergyman and JP, his extensive written output encompassed sermons, open letters, and even headstone verse. This book recovers the lost Polwhele, locating him within an archipelagic understanding of the vitality and complexity inherent in the loyalist tradition with British Romantic culture via a range of previously unexamined texts and manuscript sources. Torn between a desire for sociability and an appetite (and capacity) for a good argument, Polwhele’s outspoken contributions across a range of disciplines testify to the variety and dynamism of what has previously been considered provincial and reactionary. This book locates Polwhele’s work within key preoccupations of the age: the social, economic, and political valences of literary sociability in the age of print; the meaning of loyalism in an age of revolution; the meaning of place and belonging; enthusiasm, religious or otherwise; and the self-fashioning of the provincial man of letters. In doing so it argues for a broader definition of Romanticism than the one that has typed Polwhele as an unpalatable embarrassment and the anachronistic voice of provincial High Tory reaction. This volume will be of interest to those working in the field of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British Literature, with a particular focus on politics and on the nature of literary production and identity across the non-metropolitan areas of the British Isles.
The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine
Author: Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: P-Z
Author: George Clement BoasePublisher:
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A Series of Exercises and Questions, Adapted to the Best Latin Grammars, and Designed as a Guide to Parsing, and an Introduction to the Exercises of Valpy, Turner, Clarke, and Ellis, Whittaker's Exempla Propria, and the Eton Exempla Minora
Author: Charles BradleyBlake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness
Author: Susan MatthewsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052151357X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Examines Blake's place within a bourgeois culture in the process of redefining the role and meaning of sexuality.
Joseph Lancaster
Author: David SalmonPublisher:
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Category : Educators
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A Woman to Deliver Her People
Author: James K. HopkinsPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292766769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Second Coming of Christ has been prophesied many times through the centuries but seldom by a figure so fascinating as Joanna Southcott (1750–1814), the domestic servant who at the age of forty-two declared that God had chosen her to announce His return. A Woman to Deliver Her People is the most comprehensive study of this remarkable woman and her movement yet written. Dramatic social and political changes of the late eighteenth century—among them the revolutions in America and France—had a profound effect on the attitudes of English men and women at all levels of society. With events so far outside the range of ordinary experience, both the educated and the uneducated turned to the prophetic books of the Bible, seeking solace and explanation. A number of prophets and prophetesses appeared, claiming to have a special understanding of the biblical texts and offering startling new revelations which had been disclosed to them by God. The greatest and most influential of these was Joanna Southcott, who attracted tens of thousands of followers from the West Country, London, the Midlands, and the industrial North. Her "spiritual communications" filled some sixty-five books and pamphlets from 1801 until her death. Most contemporary observers dismissed Southcott as a fanatic, and she was frequently the subject of caricature and ridicule. James Hopkins attempts to remedy this distortion by examining Southcott's life and the millenarian movement she led within the context of the social, political, and economic crises of the period. By tracing the psychological and popular roots of Southcott's piety, and casting her appeal against the backdrop of a revolutionary age, Hopkins not only vividly portrays the life of this fascinating woman but also offers a new perspective on the mentality of ordinary English men and women during the years of their transformation into a working class.
On the Amusements of Clergymen, and Christians in General
Author: Edward StillingfleetPublisher:
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description