Author: R. Hann
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Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Author: R. HANN
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Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: D. Lee
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137077409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Lee unfolds the stories of six women with a cast of supporting characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, Stamford Raffles and Napoleon against the grand narrative of England's 18th century empire building. This book is a meticulously researched, spellbinding tale of tragedy, transformation and triumph in the age of reason.

Author: Helen Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521662346
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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The first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora.

Author: Matthew Niblett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786739909
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Joanna Southcott (1750 – 1814) remains one of the most significant and extraordinary religious figures of her era. In an age of reason and enlightenment, her apocalyptic prophecies attracted tens of thousands of followers, and she captured international attention with her promise to bear a divine child. In this new intellectual biography Matthew Niblett unravels Southcott's writings, her context and her message to demonstrate why the prophetess was such a magnetic figure and to highlight the significance of her role in British religious history. Using a wide range of contemporary sources, this revealing study explains the formation of Southcott's apocalyptic theology, her treatment of the Bible, her relation with the Church, the network of clerical supporters she used and the striking originality of her message. In so doing, this book shines fresh light on religion and the politics of salvation in late Georgian England.

Author: Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art
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Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 930

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Author: Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art
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Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 934

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List of members in each volume.

Author: Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 936

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List of members in each volume.

Author: Susan Juster
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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The age of revolution, in which kings were dethroned, radical ideals of human equality embraced, and new constitutions written, was also the age of prophecy. Neither an archaic remnant nor a novel practice, prophecy in the eighteenth century was rooted both in the primitive worldview of the Old Testament and in the vibrant intellectual environment of the philosophers and their political allies, the republicans. In Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution, Susan Juster examines the culture of prophecy in Great Britain and the United States from 1765 to 1815 side by side with the intellectual and political transformations that gave the period its historical distinction as the era of enlightened rationalism and democratic revolution. Although sometimes viewed as madmen or fools, prophets of the 1790s and early 1800s were very much products of a liberal commercial society, even while they registered their disapproval of the values and practices of that society and fought a determined campaign to return Protestant Anglo-America to its biblical moorings. They enjoyed greater visibility than their counterparts of earlier eras, thanks to the creation of a vigorous new public sphere of coffeehouses, newspapers, corresponding societies, voluntary associations, and penny pamphlets. Prophecy was no longer just the art of applying biblical passages to contemporary events; it was now the business of selling both terror and reassurance to eager buyers. Tracking the careers of several hundred men and women in Britain and North America, most of ordinary background, who preached a message of primitive justice that jarred against the cosmopolitan sensibilities of their audiences, Doomsayers explores how prophetic claims were formulated, challenged, tested, advanced, and abandoned. The stories of these doomsayers, whose colorful careers entertained and annoyed readers across the political spectrum, challenge the notion that religious faith and the Enlightenment represented fundamentally alien ways of living in and with the world. From the debates over religious enthusiasm staged by churchmen and the literati to the earnest offerings of ordinary men and women to speak to and for God, Doomsayers shows that the contest between prophets and their critics for the allegiance of the Anglo-American reading public was part of a broader recalibration of the norms and values of civic discourse in the age of revolution.

Author: Orianne Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107027063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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This book challenges our current critical understanding of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period.