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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitehouse, Tessa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Dissenters, Religious--England--History--18th century.

Dissenters, Religious.

Religion and literature--England--History--18th century.

Religion and literature.

Protestantism and literature--History--18th century.

Protestantism and literature.

Dissenters, Religious, in literature.

History.

England.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 250 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Aspects of Textual Culture 5

2 Dissent in Eighteenth-Century England 10

i Church of England, Dissenters, and Methodists 11

ii Varieties of Religious Culture 13

3 Education and Participation 16

1 Instituting Dissent and the Role of Friendship 22

1 Configuring the 'Watts-Doddridge Circle' 23

2 Classical and Christian Ideals of Friendship 27

3 Conversation and Letters 31

4 Structuring the Dissenting Community: Friendship, Letters, and Academies 40

5 'An Account of Mr Jennings's Method': Letters as Action 45

2 Dissenting Academy Traditions 55

1 The Jennings-Doddridge Tradition: Concepts-Contents-Contexts 58

2 The Circulation of Doddridge's Lectures: Adaptation 65

3 The Circulation of Doddridge's Lectures: Continuity 72

4 Polite Ministers 77

5 International Anglophone Education for the Protestant Ministry 82

6 Conducting Education 87

3 Lectures in Print 89

1 Publishing A Course of Lectures 91

2 Editing A Course of Lectures 94

3 European Editions, 1768-1773 103

4 'Lectures on Preaching': Anxieties about Publication 108

5 'Lectures on Preaching' in Print 111

6 Intentions and Effects 120

4 Isaac Watts, Educationalist 122

1 Watts's Methods in Context 124

2 Watts as Conduit: Educational Writings 129

3 Watts in Use 135

4 Conduits of Watts 140

5 Isaac Watts, Publisher 144

1 The Editor's Role 147

2 Two Discourses: International Schemes for Ministerial Improvement 150

3 A Faithful Narrative: Putting Awakening into Print 156

4 International and Interdenominational Textual Sociability 161

6 Friendship, Labour, and Editing Posthumous Works 164

1 Collected Works: Ideas and Practice 167

2 Watts's Works 1748-3754: Editorial Negotiations 169

3 Watts's Works as Object 174

4 The Family Expositor in Doddridge's Lifetime 177

5 Publishing Volumes IV-VI of The Family Expositor (1752-1756) 182

6 The Family Expositor after 1756 187

7 Monuments, Canonization, and Collaboration 194.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780198717843

0198717849

OCLC:

913853286