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Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain : Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (294 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421405285
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century BritainDDC classification:
  • 820.9/38287
LOC classification:
  • PR448.R45 A53 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Longing to Believe: Methodism and Modernity -- 1 Historicizing Methodism -- 2 The New Man: Desire, Transformation, and the Methodist Body -- 3 Words Made Flesh: Fanny Hill and the Language of Passion -- 4 Actors and Ghosts: Methodism in the Theater of the Real -- 5 "My Lord, My Love": The Performance of Public Intimacy and the Methodist Hymn -- 6 A Usable Past: Reconciliation in Humphry Clinker and The Spiritual Quixote -- Afterword. 1778 and Beyond -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Longing to Believe: Methodism and Modernity -- 1 Historicizing Methodism -- 2 The New Man: Desire, Transformation, and the Methodist Body -- 3 Words Made Flesh: Fanny Hill and the Language of Passion -- 4 Actors and Ghosts: Methodism in the Theater of the Real -- 5 "My Lord, My Love": The Performance of Public Intimacy and the Methodist Hymn -- 6 A Usable Past: Reconciliation in Humphry Clinker and The Spiritual Quixote -- Afterword. 1778 and Beyond -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

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.

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