Rituals of spontaneity: sentiment and secularism from free prayer to Wordsworth
| Item Description: | The rejection of liturgy, the rise of free prayer, and modern religious subjectivity -- "As blood is forced out of flesh" : spontaneity and the wounds of exchange in Grace abounding and The pilgrim's progress -- "True enthusiasm" : moral sense philosophy and fissures of the secular self in Shaftesbury's private writings -- At the Sign of the Bible and Sun : John Newbery, The vicar of Wakefield, and the ghost of Christopher Smart -- Wordsworth's "spontaneous overflow" and the "high service within" : from Lyrical ballads to Ecclesiastical sonnets. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-320) and index |
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 348 S., Ill., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1-932792-11-2 978-1-932792-11-9 |
