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- Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013 (United States)
Overview
""Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780"" chronicles changes in contentious politics and religion and their varied representations in British letters from the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. An uncertain trend toward tolerance and away from painful discord significantly influenced authors who reflected on and enhanced germane aspects of British literary and intellectual life. The movement was stymied during the painful Gordon Riots in June 1780, from which Britain needed to repair itself. Howard D. Weinbrot's broad-ranging interdisciplinary study considers sermons, satire, political and religious polemic, Anglo-French relations, biblical and theological commentary, Methodism, legal history, and the novel. ""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.
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Author: Howard D. Weinbrot (The Huntington Library)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Width: 15.60cm
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Weight: 0.703kg
ISBN: 9781421405162
ISBN 10: 1421405164
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 12 July 2013
Recommended Age: From 17
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Table of Contents
"Acknowledgments Introduction: The Groundwork of Change A Note on Notes Part I: Threats to the Species: Madness, Discontent, and the Danger of Dissolution 1. Causation and Contexts of Hatred: Savage Beasts Mortal and Deadly 2. Madness, Extirpation, and Defoe's Shortest Way withthe Dissenters Part II: Taking the Cure and Improving the Species: Sermons, Compulsion, and Methodists 3. The Thirtieth of January Sermon: From Exterminationto Inclusion 4. ""Compel Them to Come In,"" Luke 14:23: From Persecution toPersuasion; Against Augustinian Compulsion 5. Adopt Men From All the Nations of the Earth: Equiano's Conversion Part III: Evolutionary Reversion: The Gordon Riots, Return to Rage, and Reinventing a Cure 6. Déjà Vu All Over Again? The Gordon Riots; Bedlam Revisited, Restoration of Order, and a Trial on Trial 7. A Very Near Thing: State Terrorism, the Fury of the Aggrieved, and Incompatibility with the Safety of Millions 8. Coping, Repairing, and Dickens' Barnaby Rudge Illustrating Evolution Index"
Reviews
Each chapter is brilliant, informed by Weinbrot's astonishingly wide reading and ability to make the past come alive... As he has done before, Weinbrot makes serious intellectual history fun... Highly recommended. Choice
Each chapter is brilliant, informed by Weinbrot's astonishingly wide reading and ability to make the past come alive... As he has done before, Weinbrot makes serious intellectual history fun... Highly recommended. Choice Professor Weinbrot ranges wide and delves deep in this study, which could nostalgically be called intellectual history... Moreover, Weinbrot provides accurate and succinct historical summaries along the way. -- Robert G. Walker Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture is a formidable work of scholarship written by one of the period's sharpest critics. Its erudition is pronounced, its analysis acute... Digital Defoe Weinbrot's examination of the gradual evolution of English cultural perceptions of religious others makes an important contribution to eighteenth-century studies. The University of Chicago Press Mr. Weinbrot's study is an infinitely rewarding sourcebook for important eighteenth-century religious concepts (including passive obedience, the Thirtieth of January Sermon, or Augustinianism) and movements (such as Methodism). Without doubt, he offers a most impressive reconstruc- tion of the raging religious feuds. Moreover, his study of Defoe's monumental Shortest Way with the Dissenters is as careful as it is penetrating. His book is informed by his keen sense of injustice: its pages are suffused with his indignation about cruelties, such as the state terrorism ... Scriblerian ... a watershed moment in our field. Notes and Queries
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Howard D. Weinbrot is the Ricardo Quintana Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and the William F. Vilas Research Professor Emeritus in the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of several books, including Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century, also published by Johns Hopkins.
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