The textual culture of English Protestant dissent 1720-1800 / Tessa Whitehouse.
By: Whitehouse, Tessa
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.Description: xiii, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cm ISBN: 9780198717843.Subject(s): English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Dissenters, Religious -- England -- History -- 18th century | Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century | Protestantism and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century | Dissenters, Religious, in literatureBibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pp. [225]-244) and index.Summary: "Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts this book explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. By considering Isaac Watts and Philip Doddridge in relation to their mentors, students, friends, and readers it emphasizes the importance they and their associates attached to personal relationships in their private interactions and in print. It argues that this contributed to a distinctive literary style as well as particular modes of textual production for moderate, orthodox dissenters which reached beyond their own community to address and influence global discourses about education, enlightenment, and history."--Back of dust jacket..
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