Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality. With Notes Critical and Illustrative by C.E. de Coetlogon ..
Author : Edward Young
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 1806
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Author : Edward Young
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 1806
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Author : Edward Young
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Page : 367 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 1793
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Author : Edward Young
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Page : 367 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 1793
Category : English poetry
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Author : Edward Young
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 1793
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Author : Edward Young
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1803
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Author : Isabel Rivers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192542621
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.
Author : Edward Young
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 1793
Category : Bible. English
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Author : Alfred Russell Smith
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Art
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Author : Thomas Keymer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521007573
This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.