Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution

'Consider the Lord as Ever Present Reader'

Andrew O. Winckles (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2022
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80207-689-9 (ISBN)

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This book traces specific cases of how evangelical and Methodist discourse practices interacted with major cultural and literary events during the long eighteenth century, from the rise of the novel to the Revolution controversy of the 1790s to the shifting ground for women writers leading up to the Reform era in the 1830s.

Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution argues that Methodism in the eighteenth century was a media event that uniquely combined and utilized different types of media to reach a vast and diverse audience. Specifically, it traces particular cases of how evangelical and Methodist discourse practices interacted with major cultural and literary events during the long eighteenth century, from the rise of the novel through the Revolution controversy of the 1790s to the shifting ground for women writers leading up to the Reform era in the 1830s. The book maps the religious discourse patterns of Methodism onto works by authors like Samuel Richardson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Tighe, and Felicia Hemans. This provides not only a better sense of the religious nuances of these authors’ better-known works, but also a fuller consideration of the wide variety of genres in which women were writing during the period, many of which continue to be read as ‘non-literary’. The scope of the book leads the reader from the establishment of evangelical forms of discourse in the 1730s to the natural ends of these discourse structures during the era of reform, all the while pointing to ways in which women – Methodist and otherwise – modified these discourse patterns as acts of resistance or subversion.

Andrew O. Winckles is an Assistant Professor at Adrian College.

1. Hunting the Methodist Vixen: Methodism and the Eighteenth-Century Media Revolution
2. An Overview of Methodist Discourse Culture, 1738-1791
3. The Secret Textual History of Pamela, Methodist
4. Mary Wollstonecraft, Hester Ann Rogers, and the Textual/Sexual Enthusiasms of Women’s Life Writing
5. The Shifting Discourse Culture of Methodism, 1791-1821
6. Sally Wesley, the Evangelical Bluestockings, and the Regulation of Enthusiasm
7. Agnes Bulmer, Felicia Hemans, and Poetry as Theology
8. Evangelicalism, Mediation, and Social Change

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850 ; 10
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-80207-689-1 / 1802076891
ISBN-13	978-1-80207-689-9 / 9781802076899
Zustand	Neuware