03604nam 2200733Ia 450 991078249790332120230721033310.00-7486-5130-61-281-94762-897866119476200-7486-2948-310.1515/9780748629480(CKB)1000000000554694(EBL)380390(OCoLC)476208556(SSID)ssj0000140048(PQKBManifestationID)11139478(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140048(PQKBWorkID)10050976(PQKB)10908156(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055722(MiAaPQ)EBC380390(Au-PeEL)EBL380390(CaPaEBR)ebr10257695(CaONFJC)MIL194762(DE-B1597)615068(DE-B1597)9780748629480(OCoLC)1302163245(EXLCZ)99100000000055469420060315d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDissenting histories[electronic resource] religious division and the politics of memory in eighteenth-century England /John SeedEdinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20081 online resource (209 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-2151-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-199) and index.Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Remembering the Present; 1 – The Debt of Memory: Edmund Calamy and the Dissenters in Restoration England; 2 – Protestant Liberty: Daniel Neal and The History of the Puritans; 3 – Enthusiasts, Puritans and Politics: David Hume's History of England; 4 – Enlightenment, Republicanism and Dissent: William Harris's Histories; 5 – Dissenting Histories in the 1770's and 1780's; 6 – 'The Fiction of Ancestry': Burke, History and the Dissenters; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index;The first major study of the historical writings of religious dissenters in England between the 1690's and the 1790's, this book redefines the way we understand religious and political identities in the eighteenth century. Dissenting Histories provides a synoptic overview of the development of religious dissent in England between the Restoration and the early nineteenth century, using Dissenters' writings to open up new and different perspectives on how the past was perceived in this period. These writings are located within the wider political culture and the author explores how the long shadowReligious thoughtEngland18th centuryDissenters, ReligiousEnglandHistory18th centuryFreedom of religionEnglandHistory18th centuryFreedom of religionPolitical aspectsEnglandHistory18th centuryChristianity and literatureEnglandHistory18th centuryFreedom of religion in literatureReligious thoughtDissenters, ReligiousHistoryFreedom of religionHistoryFreedom of religionPolitical aspectsHistoryChristianity and literatureHistoryFreedom of religion in literature.261.72094209033Seed John1950-1516788MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782497903321Dissenting histories3767180UNINA