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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City - Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England 1720-1800 (Hardcover)
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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City - Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England 1720-1800 (Hardcover)
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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.
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