Literature, religion, and the evolution of culture, 1660-1780 / / Howard D. Weinbrot

• Autore: Weinbrot Howard D
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/382
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; Religion and literature - Great Britain; Literature and society - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Intellectual life 17th century; Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. The Groundwork of Change""; ""Eighteenth-Century Evolutionary Theory""; ""Practical Awareness""; ""The Chapters and a Definition""; ""A Note on Notes""; ""PART I. THREATS TO THE SPECIES: Madness, Discontent, and the Danger of Dissolution""; ""Chapter 1. Causation and Contexts of Hatred: Savage Beasts Mortal and Deadly""; ""Conjuring Up Reasons: Original Sin, Fragile Connections, Church and State""; ""Aristocratic Historiography: Advocacy and Resistance""; ""Metaphorical Enhancements: Floods, Propagation, Legions, and Dutch Treats"" ; ""Chapter 2. Madness, Extirpation, and Defoe's Shortest Way with the Dissenters""""Madness""; ""Root and Branch""; ""Defoe's Shortest Way, Sacheverell's Political Union, and Religious Conflict""; ""The Shortest Way: The Bible and Other Clues beyond the Obvious""; ""Response and Judgment""; ""Defoe as a Character of His Own Creation""; ""PART II. TAKING THE CURE AND IMPROVING THE SPECIES: Sermons, Compulsion, and Methodists""; ""Chapter 3. The Thirtieth of January Sermon: From Extermination to Inclusion""; ""The Thirtieth of January Sermon and Royalist Law"" ; ""The High Church Response and the Beginning of Change""""Higher Church and Moderate Responses to the High Church Response""; ""Raising the Decibels in a Lowered Church""; ""State, Not Church""; ""God's Hand, William's Hand, and the Divine Right of Government""; ""Retrospective""; ""Chapter 4. Compel Them to Come In,Luke 14:23: From Persecution to Persuasion; Against Augustinian Compulsion""; ""Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: Response and Rage""; ""Contexts Changed and Augustine Charged""; ""Happy Had His Works Not Been Preserved""; ""Persuade Them to Come In"" ; ""Adopt Men From All the Nations of the Earth: Equianos Conversion""""Chapter 5. Methodism: From Antagonist to Relation""; ""The Spreading Fog""; ""Reforming the Reformation? Reforming Reform?""; ""Grudging Acceptance""; ""Humphry Clinker: Joining the Family""; ""PART III. EVOLUTIONARY REVERSION: The Gordon Riots, Return to Rage, and Reinventing a Cure""; ""Chapter 6. DajaVu All Over Again? The Gordon Riots; Bedlam Revisited, Restoration of Order, and a Trial on Trial""; ""Repeal, No Popery, and the Gordon Riots: Destruction and the Puritan Redivivus"" ; ""Renovating the Language of Cultural Regress""""Church, State, and Political Causation""; ""Strategies of Defense and Alternative Responses""; ""What Is to Depose the Sword?: The Return to Order; Debate, Arrest, Trial, and Consequences""; ""The Trial of Lord George Gordon for Treason, 1781""; ""Chapter 7. A Very Near Thing: State Terrorism, the Fury of the Aggrieved, and Incompatibility with the Safety of Millions""; ""A River Too Far""; ""The Trials of Lord George Gordon, 1786-1787, and Excommunication"" ; ""The Trials of Lord George Gordon, 1786-1787: Libeling France and Britain""
• Sommario/riassunto: Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780 analyzes the texts and contexts of several major and minor authors, including Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Olaudah Equiano, Maria De Fleury, Lord George Gordon, Nathaniel Lancaster, Henry Sacheverell, Tobias Smollett, and Edward Synge.
• Titolo autorizzato: Literature, religion, and the evolution of culture, 1660-1780
• ISBN: 1-4214-0860-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816135103321
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