Literature, religion, and the evolution of culture, 1660-1780 /

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Author / Creator:Weinbrot, Howard D.
Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Description:xii, 371 p. ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9105012
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ISBN:9781421405162 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9781421408606 (electronic)
1421405164 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
1421408600 (electronic)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 0. Acknowledgments
  • 0. Introduction
  • 0. Eighteenth-Century Evolutionary Theory
  • 0. Practical Awareness
  • 0. The\Chapters and a Definition
  • 0. A\Note on Notes
  • 0. Part I
  • 1. Causation and Contexts of Hatred
  • 0. Conjuring Up Reasons
  • 0. Aristocratic Historiography
  • 0. Metaphorical Enhancements
  • 2. Madness, Extirpation, and Defoe's Shortest Way withthe Dissenters
  • 0. Madness
  • 0. Root and Branch
  • 0. Defoe's Shortest Way, Sacheverell's Political Union, and Religious Conflict
  • 0. The\Shortest Way
  • 0. Response and Judgment
  • 0. Defoe as a Character of His Own Creation
  • 0. Part II
  • 3. The\Thirtieth of January Sermon
  • 0. The\Thirtieth of January Sermon and Royalist Law
  • 0. The\High Church Response and the Beginning of Change
  • 0. Higher Church and Moderate Responses to the High Church Response
  • 0. Raising the Decibels in a Lowered Church
  • 0. State, Not Church
  • 0. God's Hand, William's Hand, and the Divine Right of Government
  • 0. Retrospective
  • 4. "Compel Them to Come In," Luke 14:23
  • 0. Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
  • 0. Contexts Changed and Augustine Charged
  • 0. Happy Had His Works Not Been Preserved
  • 0. Persuade Them to Come In
  • 0. Adopt Men From All the Nations of the Earth
  • 0. Methodism
  • 0. The\Spreading Fog
  • 0. Reforming the Reformation? Reforming Reform?
  • 0. Grudging Acceptance
  • 0. Humphry Clinker
  • 0. Part III
  • 6. Déjà Vu All Over Again? The Gordon Riots; Bedlam Revisited, Restoration of Order, and a Trial on Trial
  • 0. Repeal, No Popery, and the Gordon Riots
  • 0. Renovating the Language of Cultural Regress
  • 0. Church, State, and Political Causation
  • 0. Strategies of Defense and Alternative Responses
  • 0. "What Is to Depose the Sword?"
  • 0. The\Trial of Lord George Gordon for Treason, 1781
  • 7. A\Very Near Thing
  • 0. A\River Too Far
  • 0. The\Trials of Lord George Gordon, 1786- 1787, and Excommunication
  • 0. The\Trials of Lord George Gordon, 1786- 1787
  • 0. Aftermath
  • 0. True Colors
  • 8. Coping, Repairing, and Dickens' Barnaby Rudge
  • 0. How to Cope? The World after the Gordon Riots
  • 0. Dickens' Barnaby Rudge
  • 0. Conclusion, Summary, Implications
  • 0. Illustrating Evolution
  • 0. Index