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Author White, Daniel E.

Title Early Romanticism and religious dissent / Daniel E. White
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 65
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 65.
Contents "True principles of religion and liberty": liberal dissent and the Warrington Academy -- Anna Barbauld and devotional tastes: extempore, particular, experimental -- The "Joineriana": Barbauld, the Aikin family circle, and the Dissenting public sphere -- Godwinian scenes and popular politics: Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and the legacies of Dissent -- "Properer for a sermon": Coleridgean ministries -- "A Saracenic mosque, not a Quaker meeting-house": Southey's Thalaba, Islam, and religious nonconformity
Summary Religious diversity and ferment characterize the period that gave rise to Romanticism in England. It is generally known that many individuals who contributed to the new literatures of the late eighteenth century came from Dissenting backgrounds, but we nonetheless often underestimate the full significance of nonconformist beliefs and practices during this period. Daniel White provides a clear and useful introduction to Dissenting communities, focusing on Anna Barbauld and her familial network of heterodox "liberal" Dissenters whose religious, literary, educational, political, and economic activities shaped the public culture of early Romanticism in England. He goes on to analyze the roles of nonconformity within the lives and writings of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, offering a Dissenting genealogy of the Romantic movement
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-255) and index
Notes English
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Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Romanticism -- England
Dissenters, Religious -- England -- History -- 18th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Dissenters, Religious
English literature
Romanticism
Romantik
Lyrik
Literatur
Dissenters
England
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007298081
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