03601nam 2200745Ia 450 991082678270332120240418101527.00-7486-5130-61-281-94762-897866119476200-7486-2948-310.1515/9780748629480(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 religious division and the politics of memory in eighteenth-century England /John Seed1st ed.Edinburgh 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 John1950-1626516MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826782703321Dissenting histories4058994UNINA