Literature, religion, and the evolution of culture, 1660-1780

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Literature, religion, and the evolution of culture, 1660-1780

Howard D. Weinbrot

Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013

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Includes index

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内容説明

"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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  • 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. Deja 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

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