Vanity Fair and the Celestial City
Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

Author: Isabel Rivers

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-07-25

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 019254263X

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In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth century, and of the dramatic expansion of popular publishing. Similarly, much has been written on the extraordinary effects of the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century in Britain, Europe, and North America. But how did popular religious culture and the world of print interact? It is now known that religious works formed the greater part of the publishing market for most of the century. What religious books were read, and how? Who chose them? How did they get into people's hands? Vanity Fair and the Celestial City is the first book to answer these questions in detail. It explores the works written, edited, abridged, and promoted by evangelical dissenters, Methodists both Arminian and Calvinist, and Church of England evangelicals in the period 1720 to 1800. Isabel Rivers also looks back to earlier sources and forward to the continued republication of many of these works well into the nineteenth century. The first part is concerned with the publishing and distribution of religious books by commercial booksellers and not-for-profit religious societies, and the means by which readers obtained them and how they responded to what they read. The second part shows that some of the most important publications were new versions of earlier nonconformist, episcopalian, Roman Catholic, and North American works. The third part explores the main literary kinds, including annotated bibles, devotional guides, exemplary lives, and hymns. Building on many years' research into the religious literature of the period, Rivers discusses over two hundred writers and provides detailed case studies of popular and influential works.

Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle

Author: Clement King Shorter

Publisher: London, Hodder

Published: 1896

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13:

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This 1896 volume offers a glimpse of the lives of those close to Brontë, including her sisters, Emily and Anne.

Cottage Poems
Cottage Poems

Author: Patrick Brontë

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2018-11-22

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1528782054

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“Cottage Poems” is a collection of moral verses by Patrick Brontë. Patrick Brontë (1777 – 1861) was an Irish priest and author, as well as the father of the world-renowned Brontë sisters. He would eventually outlive his wife by some forty years, and, tragically, all of their children as well. This wonderful collection will appeal to poetry lovers and is not to be missed by fans of the famous Brontë literary family. Contents include: “Haworth”, “The Happy Cottagers”, “The Rainbow”, “Winter-Night Meditations”, “Verses Sent To A Lady On Her Birthday”, “The Irish Cabin”, “To The Rev. J. Gilpin, On His Improved Edition Of The Pilgrim's Progress”, “The Cottage Maid”, “The Spider And The Fly”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this classic volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition for the enjoyment of readers now and for years to come.

The Brontës Life and Letters
The Brontës Life and Letters

Author: Clement King Shorter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-09-19

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 1108065228

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First published in 1908, this two-volume collection documents through correspondence the remarkable careers of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.

Heart Religion
Heart Religion

Author: John Coffey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-06-24

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0191036102

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The Evangelical Revival of the mid-eighteenth century was a major turning point in Protestant history. In England, Wesleyan Methodists became a separate denomination around 1795, and Welsh Calvinistic Methodists became independent of the Church of England in 1811. By this point, evangelicalism had emerged as a major religious force across the British Isles, making inroads among Anglicans as well as Irish and Scottish Presbyterians. Evangelical Dissent proliferated through thousands of Methodist, Baptist, and Congregational churches; even Quakers were strongly influenced by evangelical religion. The evangelicals were often at odds with each other over matters of doctrine (like the 'five points' of Calvinism); ecclesiology (including the status of the established church); politics (as they reacted in various ways to the American and French Revolutions); and worship (with the boisterous, extemporary style of Primitive Methodists contrasting sharply with the sober piety of many Anglican advocates of 'vital religion'). What they shared was a cross-centred, Bible-based piety that stressed conversion and stimulated evangelism. But how was this generic evangelical ethos adopted and reconfigured by different denominations and in very different social contexts? Can we categorise different styles of 'heart religion'? To what extent was evangelical piety dependent on the phenomenon of 'revival'? And what practical difference did it make to the experience of dying, to the parish community, or to denominational politics? This collection addresses these questions in innovative ways. It examines neglected manuscript and print sources, including handbooks of piety, translations and abridgements, conversion narratives, journals, letters, hymns, sermons, and obituaries. It offers a variety of approaches, reflecting a range of disciplinary expertise—historical, literary, and theological. Together, the contributions point towards a new account of the roots and branches of evangelical piety, and offer fresh ways of analysing the history of Protestant spirituality.