Weinbrot Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660–1780

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4214-0860-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
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A distinguished critic traces the growing, but always threatened, trend toward political and religious tolerance from the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth century in Britain.

Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinbrot, Howard D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Weinbrot, Howard D.
Howard D. Weinbrot is the Ricardo Quintana Professor of English and William Freeman Vilas Research Professor in the College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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.