Author: P. S. BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Lake Methodism
Author: Jasper Albert CragwallPublisher: Literature, Religion, & Postse
ISBN: 9780814212271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830, reveals the traffic between Romanticism's rhetorics of privilege and the most socially toxic religious forms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The “Lake Poets,” of whom William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are the most famous, are often seen as crafters of a poetics of spontaneous inspiration, transcendent imagination, and visionary prophecy, couched within lexicons of experimental simplicity and lyrical concision. But, as Jasper Cragwall argues, such postures and principles were in fact received as the vulgarities of popular Methodism, an insurgent religious movement whose autobiographies, songs, and sermons reached sales figures of which the Lakers could only dream.With these religious histories, Lake Methodism unsettles canonical Romanticism, reading, for example, the grand declaration opening Wordsworth's spiritual autobiography—“to the open fields I told a prophecy”—not as poetic self-sanctification, but as a means of embarrassing Methodism, responsible for the suppression of The Prelude for half a century. The book measures this fearful symmetry between Romantic and religious enthusiasms in figures iconic and unfamiliar: John Wesley, Robert Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, as well as the eponymous scientist of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and even Joanna Southcott, an illiterate servant turned latter-day Virgin Mary, who, at the age of sixty-five, mistook a fatal dropsy for the Second Coming of Christ (and so captivated a nation).
Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Misty G. AndersonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142140480X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, British Methodism was an object of both derision and desire. Many popular eighteenth-century works ridiculed Methodists, yet often the very same plays, novels, and prints that cast Methodists as primitive, irrational, or deluded also betrayed a thinly cloaked fascination with the experiences of divine presence attributed to the new evangelical movement. Misty G. Anderson argues that writers, actors, and artists used Methodism as a concept to interrogate the boundaries of the self and the fluid relationships between religion and literature, between reason and enthusiasm, and between theater and belief. Imagining Methodism situates works by Henry Fielding, John Cleland, Samuel Foote, William Hogarth, Horace Walpole, Tobias Smollett, and others alongside the contributions of John Wesley, Charles Wesley, and George Whitefield in order to understand how Methodism's brand of "experimental religion" was both born of the modern world and perceived as a threat to it. Anderson's analysis of reactions to Methodism exposes a complicated interlocking picture of the religious and the secular, terms less transparent than they seem in current critical usage. Her argument is not about the lives of eighteenth-century Methodists; rather, it is about Methodism as it was imagined in the work of eighteenth-century British writers and artists, where it served as a sign of sexual, cognitive, and social danger. By situating satiric images of Methodists in their popular contexts, she recaptures a vigorous cultural debate over the domains of religion and literature in the modern British imagination. Rich in cultural and literary analysis, Anderson's argument will be of interest to students and scholars of the eighteenth century, religious studies, theater, and the history of gender.
History of Methodism in Wisconsin
Author: P. S. BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Lake Methodism
Author: Jasper CragwallPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814254127
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 measures a fearful symmetry between Romantic and religious enthusiasms in figures iconic and unfamiliar: John Wesley, Robert Southey, Wordsworth, Coleridge, as well as the eponymous scientist of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and even Joanna Southcott, an illiterate serva
America, and American Methodism
Author: Frederick James JobsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Methodism in America: with the Personal Narrative of the Author, During a Tour Through a Part of the United States and Canada
Author: James DIXON (Wesleyan Minister.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Story of Methodism
Author: Ammi Bradford HydePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
The Story of American Methodism
Author: Frederick Abbott NorwoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9780687396412
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Traces the history of Methodism from the eighteenth-century Wesleyan movement through successive stages of theological development to its role in today's ecumenical movement
Wesley and the People Called Methodists
Author: Richard P. HeitzenraterPublisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 142674224X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The practical and theological development of eighteenth-century Methodism.
The Illustrated History of Methodism in Great Britain, America, and Australia, from the Days of the Wesleys to the Present Time
Author: W. H. DanielsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description