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Author:   Lori Branch
Publisher:   Baylor University Press
Imprint:   Baylor University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781602583429

ISBN 10:   1602583420
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   30 November 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Rejection of Liturgy, the Rise of Free Prayer, and Modern Religious Subjectivity 2 """"As Blood Is Forced out of Flesh"""": Spontaneity and the Wounds of Exchange in Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim's Progress 3 """"True Enthusiasm"""": Moral Sense Philosophy and Fissures of the Secular Self in Shaftesbury' Private Writings Coda to Chapter 3: """"Divide Youself, Be Two""""-Images of the Modern Subject 4 At the Sign of the Bible and Sun: John Newbery, The Vicar of Wakefield, and the Ghost of Christopher Smart 5 Wordsworth's """"Spontaneous Overflow"""" and the """"High Service Within"""": From Lyrical Ballads to Ecclesiastical Sonnets Conclusion: On the Religiousness of Criticism Notes Works Cited Index

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"Rich, well-argued, and frequently fascinating... The book yields particularly useful insights about anxieties over commercialized religious culture... and the paradoxically regimented nature of much early-modern ""spontaneity.""... Recommended. -- CHOICE"

Rich, well-argued, and frequently fascinating... The book yields particularly useful insights about anxieties over commercialized religious culture... and the paradoxically regimented nature of much early-modern spontaneity. ... Recommended. -- CHOICE

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Lori Branch (Ph. D. Indiana University) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa.

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