John Wesley, Practical Divinity and the Defence of Literature

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-89158-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Reihe: Routledge Methodist Studies Series

John Wesley (1703–1791), leader of British Methodism, was one of the most prolific literary figures of the eighteenth century, responsible for creating and disseminating a massive corpus of religious literature and for instigating a sophisticated programme of reading, writing and publishing within his Methodist Societies. John Wesley, Practical Divinity and the Defence of Literature takes the influential genre of practical divinity as a framework for understanding Wesley’s role as an author, editor and critic of popular religious writing. It asks why he advocated the literary arts as a valid aspect of his evangelical theology, and how his Christian poetics impacted upon the religious experience of his followers.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salgard Cunha, Emma

Salgård Cunha, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Methodism and the Defence of Literature: An Introduction;

1 Methodist Literary Culture: Literacy and Grace;

2 Wesley’s Christian Library: Practicality, Controversy and the Methodist Canon;

3 Wesley in the Literary Sphere: The Methodist Miscellany;

4 Wesleyan Poetics: Practical Divinity and the Function of Literature;

5 Negotiating Nonconformity: Practical Divinity and the Politics of Methodist Hymnody;

6 Experience, Experiment and Wesley’s Spiritual Autobiography;

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Emma Salgård Cunha is Lecturer in English at Middlebury College’s Oxford Humanities Program and College Lecturer in Theology at Keble College, Oxford. Her research focuses on the relationship between religion and literature in the long eighteenth century.