Orthodoxy and heresy in eighteenth-century society : essays from the DeBartolo Conference / edited by Regina Hewitt and Pat Rogers.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hewitt, Regina, 1959-

Rogers, Pat, 1938-

Conference Name:

DeBartolo Conference (1998 : University of South Florida)

Series:

Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deviant behavior--History--18th century--Congresses.

Deviant behavior.

Conformity--History--18th century--Congresses.

Conformity.

Heresy--History--18th century--Congresses.

Heresy.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2002]

Contents:

Where the Wild Things Are: Guides to London's Transgressive Spaces / Carol Houlihan Flynn 27

Sedition, Vice, and Atheism: The Limits of Toleration and the Orthodox Attack on Rational Religion in Late-Eighteenth-Century England / Arthur Sheps 51

Breaking All the Rules: The Worsley Affair in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain / Cindy McCreery 69

Plagued by Enthusiasm: Swift's Fear of Infectious Dissent and His Argument against Abolishing Christian Quarantine in A Tale of a Tub / John Bruce 89

Apocalypse Then: Pope and the Prophets of Dulness / Pat Rogers 112

Junius: An Orthodox Rebel / Linde Katritzky 134

Simon Jaillot: Sculptor, Pamphleteer, Outcast / Anne Betty Weinshenker 154

The Gnostic Clarissa / Margaret Anne Doody 176

Eros Heretic: Transgression Generic and Religious in and out of Diderot's L'Oiseau blanc, conte bleu / Isabelle Cassagne DeMarte 207

Sade and Nerciat: Marginality in Search of an Erotology / Valerie van Crugten-Andre 230

Olympe de Gouges: Revolutionary in Search of an Audience / Megan Conway 247

Meat, Ethics, and the Case of John Wesley / William Stroup 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-285) and index.

ISBN:

0838755011

OCLC:

48038154