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02421aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 5AE9641EF79311E8BA923B1497128E48 003 SILO 005 20181204010734 008 171211t20182018enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 019826996X 020 $a 9780198269960 035 $a (OCoLC)1014458018 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d CUI $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d SILO 050 4 $a PR448 R45 R58 2018 100 1 $a Rivers, Isabel, $e author. 245 10 $a Vanity Fair and the Celestial City : $b dissenting, Methodist, and evangelical literary culture in England 1720-1800 / $c Isabel Rivers. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford University Press : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xvii, 457 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-428) and index. 520 8 $a This work 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. -- Provided by publisher 650 0 $a Christian literature, English $x History and criticism $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Evangelicalism in literature. 776 08 $i Electronic version : $a Rivers, Isabel. $t Vanity Fair and the Celestial City. $d Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018 $z 9780192542625 $w (OCoLC)1048402491 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191122022745.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190202012347.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5AE9641EF79311E8BA923B1497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search