1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784730903321

Titolo

Anglo-American Millennialism, from Milton to the Millerites / / edited by Richard Connors, Andrew Colin Gow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004

ISBN

1-280-91506-4

9786610915064

90-474-0524-2

1-4294-0807-3

Descrizione fisica

xviii, 210 p. : 1 map

Collana

Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; ; 113

Disciplina

236/.9

Soggetti

Millennialism - England - History of doctrines - 17th century

Millennialism - United States - History of doctrines - 17th century

Millennialism - United States - History of doctrines - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. The Millennial Border between Tradition and Innovation: Foxe, Milton and the Idea of Historical Progress, Andrew Escobedo -- 2. The Virginia Company, 1606-1624: Anglicanism's Millennial Adventure, Beth Quitslund -- 3. "The Promised Day of the Lord": American Millennialism and Apocalypticism, 1735-1783, John Howard Smith -- 4. Uncertain Dawn: Millennialism and Political Theology in Revolutionary America, Stephen A. Marini -- 5. Millennial Invasion: Millerism in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada, J.I. Little -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Neither the meliorist political culture of the nascent American republic nor its later drift toward apocalyptically tinged 'fundamentalist' Protestantism and dispensationalism can be explained outside the context of the shared Anglo-American traditions and practices of millennial expectation and apocalyptic angst--whether expressed by early colonists, Milton, Blake, Miller or the Continental Congress. In this chronologically direct and thematically varied volume, five scholars working in three distinct disciplines (Religion, English literature, and History) approach millennialism and apocalypticism in the British and



Anglo-American contexts, making remarkable contributions both to the study of religious, literary and political culture in the English-speaking ecumene, and, at least implicitly, to the critique of disciplinary exclusivity. Only in such mixed company does the study of the millennial nexus in English and American religion, culture, literature and politics, from the time of Milton to the time of the Millerites, come into focus. Contributors include: Richard Connors, Andrew Escobedo, Andrew C. Gow, J.I. Little, Stephen A. Marini, Beth Quitslund, and John Howard Smith.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792413503321

Autore

Benis T

Titolo

Romantic Diasporas: French Émigrés, British Convicts, and Jews [[electronic resource] /] / by T. Benis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-53282-0

9786612532825

0-230-62264-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

Disciplina

820.9/145

820.9145

Soggetti

English language

European literature

Literature

Literature   

Literature—Philosophy

British literature

English

European Literature

Literature, general

Postcolonial/World Literature

Literary Theory

British and Irish Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 ""Boundless, yet Distinct"": The Émigré Experience and the 1790s; 2 The French Connection in Frances Burney and Mary Shelley; 3 Beyond the Convict Taint: George Barrington and the Colonial Cure; 4 The Scottish Martyrs and the Reform of Narrative; 5 Edgeworth and the Jews: Diaspora and Political Control; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Romantic Diasporasexamines exile in the Romantic period fromthe different perspectives of French émigrés in England, British convicts transported to Australia, and Jews in their perennial diaspora.