Author: Joseph WILLIAMS (of Kidderminster.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Vanity Fair and the Celestial City
Author: Isabel Rivers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192542621
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth century, and of the dramatic expansion of popular publishing. Similarly, much has been written on the extraordinary effects of the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century in Britain, Europe, and North America. But how did popular religious culture and the world of print interact? It is now known that religious works formed the greater part of the publishing market for most of the century. What religious books were read, and how? Who chose them? How did they get into people's hands? Vanity Fair and the Celestial City is the first book to answer these questions in detail. It 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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192542621
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth century, and of the dramatic expansion of popular publishing. Similarly, much has been written on the extraordinary effects of the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century in Britain, Europe, and North America. But how did popular religious culture and the world of print interact? It is now known that religious works formed the greater part of the publishing market for most of the century. What religious books were read, and how? Who chose them? How did they get into people's hands? Vanity Fair and the Celestial City is the first book to answer these questions in detail. It 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.
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part II vol 8
Author: Lynn Botelho
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040249442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040249442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.
The Literary Panorama and National Register
Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress During the Year 1871
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Catalogue of books added to the Library of Congress
Author: Washington D.C., libr. of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress, from Dec. 1, ... to Dec. 1, ...
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress Being the Year 1871
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382193167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382193167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Sermons
Author: Hugh Blair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description