Religion in Romantic England explores the ways thattheliterature of
English Christianity shaped the social, cultural, political, and
religious life of the nationin texts published between 1760 and
1832. From the accession of George III and the expansion of
Methodism in the late eighteenth century to the Reform Bill and the
beginning of the Oxford Movement of the early nineteenth, this
anthology revealshow theological ideas and ecclesial movements
influenced one of the most widelystudiedperiods in English
literature and history. These tumultuous decades brought religious
revival in evangelical preaching and spirituality, controversial
responses to the French Revolution, the abolition of the slave
trade, the struggle over Roman Catholic emancipation, the
proliferation of missionary societies, and intellectual battles
over the nature of God, the Bible, faith, church authority, and
religious pluralism. Religious writers in the Romantic period range
from poets and preachers to pamphleteers and theologians. In ten
thematic chapters tracing pivotal developments in belief and
practice, Religion in Romantic England
guidesreadersinunderstandingthe major historical and theological
issues that contributed to the literary, educational, and political
movements of theera. These judicious selections, drawn from a
diverse body of luminariesaincluding William Carey, Edmund Burke,
Mary Wollstonecraft, Joseph Priestley, Hannah More, Percy Shelley,
and William Wilberforce, among many othersaintroduce newcomers and
established readers alike to the ideas, controversies, and hopes
that continue to affectour common life to this day.
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