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Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780
Howard D. Weinbrot
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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. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 233 x 37. Weight in Grams: 688.
"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. ... Read more
"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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421405162
SKU
V9781421405162
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About Howard D. Weinbrot
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.
Reviews for Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780
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. ... Read more