The Romantics / edited by Stephen Prickett

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991000893749707536
• Autore: Prickett, Stephen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : Methuen, 1984
• Descrizione fisica: 268 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
• Collana: The Context of English literature
• Soggetti: Letteratura inglese - Storia e criticismo; Romanticismo - Inghilterra; Gran Bretagna - Civilizzazione
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Preaching politics : the religious rhetoric of George Whitefield and the founding of a new nation / / Jerome Dean Mahaffey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959814803321
• Autore: Mahaffey Jerome Dean
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waco, : Baylor University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 9786610930005; 9781280930003; 1280930004; 9781602580848; 1602580847
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Collana: Studies in rhetoric and religion ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 269/.2092
• Soggetti: Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century; United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-289) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The quest for American origins -- Whitefield : finding his talents, forming his identity -- American identity -- America awakened -- Toward colonial unification -- The war against arbitrary power -- The deep-laid plot -- A blueprint for revolution -- The legacy of Whitefield.
• Sommario/riassunto: The third volume in the Studies in Rhetoric & Religion, Preaching Politics traces the surprising and lasting influence of one of American history's most fascinating and enigmatic figures-George Whitefield. Jerome Mahaffey explores George Whitefield's role in creating a "rhetoric of community" that successfully established a common worldview among the many colonial cultures. Using a rigorous method of rhetorical analysis, Mahaffey cogently argues that George Whitefield directed the evolution of an American collective religious identity that lay underneath the emerging political ideology that fu