Research Catalog

Title

The textual culture of English Protestant dissent 1720-1800 / Tessa Whitehouse.

Author

Whitehouse, Tessa

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Details

Description

xii, 250 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts this book explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. By considering Isaac Watts and Philip Doddridge in relation to their mentors, students, friends, and readers it emphasizes the importance they and their associates attached to personal relationships in their private interactions and in print. It argues that this contributed to a distinctive literary style as well as particular modes of textual production for moderate, orthodox dissenters which reached beyond their own community to address and influence global discourses about education, enlightenment, and history. The book's focus on 'textual culture' foregrounds relationships between forms as well as considering texts as they existed in one form or another.0In examining textual culture, this book emphasises adaptation, transformation, fluidity and communality: it approaches the human relationships that make texts (including friendships, reading communities, intellectual exchange and business arrangements) with as much care as the content of the texts themselves. The book demonstrates that models of family and social authorship among Romantic-era dissenters advanced by Michelle Levy, Daniel White and Felicity James were rooted in the domestic culture at earlier academies and in the example of members of the Watts-Doddridge circle." --

Subject

• 1700 - 1799
• English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• Dissenters, Religious > England > History > 18th century
• Religion and literature > England > History > 18th century
• Protestantism and literature > History > 18th century
• Dissenters, Religious, in literature
• Dissenters, Religious
• English literature
• Protestantism and literature
• Religion and literature
• England

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-244) and index.

Call Number

JFD 16-776

ISBN

• 9780198717843
• 0198717849

OCLC

913853286

Author

Whitehouse, Tessa, author.

Title

The textual culture of English Protestant dissent 1720-1800 / Tessa Whitehouse.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-244) and index.

Chronological Term

1700 - 1799

Research Call Number

JFD 16-776