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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827104703321

Autore

Anderson Misty G. <1967->

Titolo

Imagining Methodism in eighteenth-century Britain [[electronic resource] ] : enthusiasm, belief, & the borders of the self / / Misty G. Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-4214-0528-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/38287

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Religion in literature

Methodism in literature

Great Britain Intellectual life 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

Historicizing methodism -- The new man: Desire, transformation, and the methodist body -- Words made flesh: Fanny Hill and the language of passion -- Actors and ghosts: Methodism in the theater of the real -- "'My Lord, my love:' the performance of public intimacy and the Methodist hymn -- A usable past: reconciliation in Humphry Clinker and the spiritual Quixote.