| Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 1, Whichcote to Wesley: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England 1660 1780 Contributor(s): Rivers, Isabel (Author), Isabel, Rivers (Author), Erskine-Hill, Howard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521383404 ISBN-13: 9780521383400 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1991 Annotation: The period 1660-1780 saw major changes in the relationship between religion and ethics in English thought. In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and methodism. Her study investigates the writings that grew out of these movements, combining a history of the ideas of individual thinkers (including both prominent figures such as Bunyan and Wesley and a range of lesser writers) with analysis of their characteristic terminology, techniques of persuasion, literary forms and styles. The intellectual and social milieu of each movement is explored, together with the assumed audiences for whom the texts were written. The book provides an accessible, wide-ranging and authoritative new interpretation of a crucial period in the development of early modern religious and moral thought. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) |
| Dewey: 209.420 |
| LCCN: 90035459 |
| Lexile Measure: 1360 |
| Series: ACT Now Plays |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.32 lbs) 292 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Religious Orientation - Christian |