Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780(English, Hardcover, Weinbrot Howard D.)

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Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780(English, Hardcover, Weinbrot Howard D.) is written by Weinbrot Howard D. and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1421405164 (ISBN 10) and 9781421405162 (ISBN 13).

"Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780" chronicles changes in contentious politics and religion and their varied representations in British letters from the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. An uncertain trend toward tolerance and away from painful discord significantly influenced authors who reflected on and enhanced germane aspects of British literary and intellectual life. The movement was stymied during the painful Gordon Riots in June 1780, from which Britain needed to repair itself. Howard D. Weinbrot's broad-ranging interdisciplinary study considers sermons, satire, political and religious polemic, Anglo-French relations, biblical and theological commentary, Methodism, legal history, and the novel. "Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780" analyzes the texts and contexts of several major and minor authors, including Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Olaudah Equiano, Maria De Fleury, Lord George Gordon, Nathaniel Lancaster, Henry Sacheverell, Tobias Smollett, and Edward Synge.