Methodism and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism - Reviewing the Revival

This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism intersected with and informed each other in the eighteenth century. Methodism emerged at a time when the idea of a 'public square' was taking shape, a process facilitated by the periodical press.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Popular Review Criticism, Methodism, and the Public Sphere
2 Reviewing Methodism in Devotional and Polemical Literature
3 Reviewing Whitefield and Wesley
4 Anti-Methodism and Belletristic Critique
5 Reviewing the Oxford Expulsion and the Minutes Controversy
6 The Legacy of the Monthly and the Critical Reviews
Epilogue

About the author

Brett McInelly is a Professor in the English Department at Brigham Young University, USA. His publications include Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism (2014).

Summary

This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism intersected with and informed each other in the eighteenth century. Methodism emerged at a time when the idea of a ‘public square’ was taking shape, a process facilitated by the periodical press.

Product details

• Authors: Brett McInelly
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032491394
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249139-4
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Methodist Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Methodist, History of Religion, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches, Other Nonconformist and Evangelical Churches