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Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism

English · Hardback

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This study examines the satirical and polemical literature written in response to the eighteenth-century Methodist revival and the ways Methodists, who were acutely aware of the antagonism that tailed the revival, responded to this literature, both in public and in the ways they expressed and practiced their faith.

About the author

Brett C. McInelly is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he teaches composition and literature. He has published articles on Defoe and Smollett, among others, as well as articles on the literary reception of Methodism in the eighteenth century. He is also the founding editor of Religion in the Age of Enlightenment (AMS Press). Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism is his first book.

Summary

This study examines the satirical and polemical literature written in response to the eighteenth-century Methodist revival and the ways Methodists, who were acutely aware of the antagonism that tailed the revival, responded to this literature, both in public and in the ways they expressed and practiced their faith.

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an engaging and readable study ... a very welcome addition

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