Author: William Law
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Episcopacy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Two Letters to Dr. B. Hoadley [sic], Bishop of Bangor, in Defence of Episcopacy
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
The Invention of the Oral
Author: Paula McDowell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022645701X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Just as today’s embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their unique powers. And so it was, Paula McDowell argues, that our modern concepts of oral culture and print culture began to crystallize, and authors and intellectuals drew on older theological notion of oral tradition to forge the modern secular notion of oral tradition that we know today. Drawing on an impressive array of sources including travel narratives, elocution manuals, theological writings, ballad collections, and legal records, McDowell re-creates a world in which everyone from fishwives to philosophers, clergymen to street hucksters, competed for space and audiences in taverns, marketplaces, and the street. She argues that the earliest positive efforts to theorize "oral tradition," and to depict popular oral culture as a culture (rather than a lack of culture), were prompted less by any protodemocratic impulse than by a profound discomfort with new cultures of reading, writing, and even speaking shaped by print. Challenging traditional models of oral versus literate societies and key assumptions about culture’s ties to the spoken and the written word, this landmark study reorients critical conversations across eighteenth-century studies, media and communications studies, the history of the book, and beyond.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022645701X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Just as today’s embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their unique powers. And so it was, Paula McDowell argues, that our modern concepts of oral culture and print culture began to crystallize, and authors and intellectuals drew on older theological notion of oral tradition to forge the modern secular notion of oral tradition that we know today. Drawing on an impressive array of sources including travel narratives, elocution manuals, theological writings, ballad collections, and legal records, McDowell re-creates a world in which everyone from fishwives to philosophers, clergymen to street hucksters, competed for space and audiences in taverns, marketplaces, and the street. She argues that the earliest positive efforts to theorize "oral tradition," and to depict popular oral culture as a culture (rather than a lack of culture), were prompted less by any protodemocratic impulse than by a profound discomfort with new cultures of reading, writing, and even speaking shaped by print. Challenging traditional models of oral versus literate societies and key assumptions about culture’s ties to the spoken and the written word, this landmark study reorients critical conversations across eighteenth-century studies, media and communications studies, the history of the book, and beyond.
The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall
Author: William Page
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Cathedrals of Great Britain
Author: Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Publisher: London : J. M. Dent
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher: London : J. M. Dent
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Dying to Self
Author: William Law
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Memorials of Old Middlesex
Author: John Tavenor Perry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greater London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greater London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Irish Culture and Nationalism, 1750-1950
Author: Oliver MacDonagh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781349171309
Category : Great Britain-History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781349171309
Category : Great Britain-History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Power of the Spirit
Author: William Law
Publisher: CLC Publications
ISBN: 1936143658
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
William Law emphasizes “the truth of our dependence upon the continual leading of the Spirit, and the assurance that that leading can be enjoyed without interruption.” Although a generally modernized version of Andrew Murray’s 1896 edition, Dave Hunt weaves together appropriate thoughts from Law’s major works, enriching the book for today’s reader.
Publisher: CLC Publications
ISBN: 1936143658
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
William Law emphasizes “the truth of our dependence upon the continual leading of the Spirit, and the assurance that that leading can be enjoyed without interruption.” Although a generally modernized version of Andrew Murray’s 1896 edition, Dave Hunt weaves together appropriate thoughts from Law’s major works, enriching the book for today’s reader.