- Uniform Title
- Vanity Fair and the Celestial City (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Vanity Fair and the Celestial City (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-428) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2017963138
- OCLC
- ssj0002221069
- Author
Rivers, Isabel.
- Title
Vanity Fair and the Celestial City [electronic resource] : dissenting, Methodist, and evangelical literary culture in England 1720-1800 / Isabel Rivers.
- Imprint
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Edition
First edition.
- Description
1 online resource (xvii, 457 pages)
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-428) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Summary
This work explores the works written, edited, abridged, and promoted by evangelical dissenters, Methodists both Arminian and Calvinist, and Church of England evangelicals in the period 1720 to 1800. Isabel Rivers also looks back to earlier sources and forward to the continued republication of many of these works well into the nineteenth century. The first part is concerned with the publishing and distribution of religious books by commercial booksellers and not-for-profit religious societies, and the means by which readers obtained them and how they responded to what they read. The second part shows that some of the most important publications were new versions of earlier nonconformist, episcopalian, Roman Catholic, and North American works. The third part explores the main literary kinds, including annotated bibles, devotional guides, exemplary lives, and hymns. Building on many years' research into the religious literature of the period, Rivers discusses over two hundred writers and provides detailed case studies of popular and influential works. -- Provided by publisher
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1700-1799
- Other Form:
Electronic version : Rivers, Isabel. Vanity Fair and the Celestial City. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780192542625 (OCoLC)1048402491