Research Catalog

Title

Religious dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld circle, 1740-1860 / edited by Felicity James and Ian Inkster.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• James, Felicity, 1978-
• Inkster, Ian.

Description

xiii, 257 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Recent criticism is now fully appreciating the nuanced and complex contribution made by Dissenters to the culture and ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain. This is the first sustained study of a Dissenting family - the Aikins - from the 1740s to the 1860s. Essays by literary critics, historians of religion and science, and geographers explore and contextualise the achievements of this remarkable family, including John Aikin senior, tutor at the celebrated Warrington Academy, and his children, poet Anna Letitia Barbauld, and John Aikin junior, literary physician and editor. The latter's children in turn were leading professionals and writers in the early Victorian era. This study provides new perspectives on the social and cultural importance of the family and their circle - an untold story of collaboration and exchange, and a narrative which breaks down period boundaries to set Enlightenment and Victorian culture in dialogue"--
• "This study of the Aikin-Barbauld circle is the fourth volume to result from the work of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies. Established in September 2004, the Centre is a collaboration between the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, and Dr Williams's Library, Gordon Square, London. Its objectives are to promote the use of the Library's unique holdings of Puritan, Protestant nonconformist and dissenting books and manuscripts; to encourage research into and dissemination of these resources; and to increase knowledge and understanding of the importance of Puritanism and Protestant dissent to English society and literature from the sixteenth century to the present"--

Subjects

• Dissenters, Religious > England > History > 18th century
• Authorship > Collaboration > History
• Authors, English > 19th century > Family relationships
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• England > Intellectual life > 18th century
• English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• England > Intellectual life > 19th century
• Authors, English > 18th century > Family relationships
• Dissenters, Religious > England > History > 19th century
• Aiken family

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Religious dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld circle, 1740-1860: an introduction Felicity James; 2. The Rev John Aikin senior: Kibworth School and Warrington Academy with appendix: John Aikin's pupils at Kibworth David L. Wykes; 3. How dissent made Anna Letitia Barbauld, and what she made of dissent William McCarthy; 4. 'And make thine own Apollo doubly thine': John Aikin as literary physician and the intersection of medicine, morality, and politics Kathryn Ready; 5. 'Outline maps of knowledge': John Aikin's geographical imagination Stephen Daniels and Paul Elliott; 6. 'Under the edge of the public': Arthur Aikin, the dissenting mind and the character of English industrialization Ian Inkster; 7. 'The different genius of woman': Lucy Aikin's historiography Michelle Levy; 8. Lucy Aikin and the legacies of dissent Felicity James; 9. The Aikin family, retrospectively Anne F. Janowitz.

Call Number

JFE 12-1309

ISBN

• 9781107008083 (hardback)
• 1107008085 (hardback)

LCCN

2011023914

OCLC

YBP 2011023914

Title

Religious dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld circle, 1740-1860 / edited by Felicity James and Ian Inkster.

Imprint

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

James, Felicity, 1978-

Inkster, Ian.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-1309