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Reason, grace, and sentiment: a study of the language of religion and ethics in England, 1660-1780, Volume I, Whichcote to Wesley

By Isabel Rivers

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
9780521383400, 9780521021340, 9780511994999
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
76 MB (80112117 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Pages
292\292
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-13 08:22:37

Description

The period 1660-1780 saw major changes in the relationship between religion and ethics in English thought. In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and methodism. Her study investigates the writings that grew out of these movements, combining a history of the ideas of individual thinkers (including both prominent figures such as Bunyan and Wesley and a range of lesser writers) with analysis of their characteristic terminology, techniques of persuasion, literary forms and styles. The intellectual and social milieu of each movement is explored, together with the assumed audiences for whom the texts were written. The book provides an accessible, wide-ranging and authoritative new interpretation of a crucial period in the development of early modern religious and moral thought.

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