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A Gathered Church (Routledge Revivals): The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930 - Softcover

Davie, Donald

 
9780415519960: A Gathered Church (Routledge Revivals): The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415519969 ISBN 13: 9780415519960
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth.

This historical survey takes into the account the contribution of a wealth of seminal literary figures such as the poets Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley and William Blake; and the novelists Elizabeth Gaskell, George Elliot, Mark Rutherford and D. H. Lawrence. However, far from consigning his study merely to literature, Davie also includes important orators like Robert Hall; scientists like Michael Farraday and Philip Gosse; political activists like Joseph Priestly, and soldiers like Orde Wingate. Unitarians, Sandemanians, Wesleyan Methodists and the Plymouth Brethren are considered, as well as the older denominations.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415519969
ISBN 13 
9780415519960
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
172