Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society by Styler, Rebecca;

Short description:

This first volume looks at ‘Traditions’, offering an overview of the different religious traditions and denominations present in Britain c.1789–1914

Long description:

This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources. These include religious fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, sermons, travel writing, religious ephemera, unpublished notebooks and pamphlet literature. Spanning the long nineteenth century (c.1789–1914), the resource departs from older models of ‘the Victorian crisis of faith’ in order to open up new ways of conceptualising religion. This first volume looks at ‘Traditions’, offering an overview of the different religious traditions and denominations present in Britain during this period.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1: Traditions

Ed. Rebecca Styler

General Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society

Introduction to Volume I: Traditions

PART 1

1. Extracts from Emma Jane Worboise, Married Life, or, The Story of Philip and Edith (1863)

2. Extracts from C. H. Spurgeon, ‘How to Read the Bible: A Sermon’ (1866)

3. Extracts from Frederick W. Faber, The Church, a Safeguard against Modern Selfishness (1840)

4. Frederick W. Faber, ‘Easter Communion’ (1856)

5. Extracts from A. I. Fitzroy, Dogma and the Church of England (1891)

6. Extracts from M. E. Herbert, Anglican Prejudices Against the Catholic Church (1866)

7. Extracts from M. E. Herbert, Impressions of Spain in 1866 (1866) 　

8. Extracts from [Anon.], Letters of an Irish Catholic Layman (1883)

9. Extracts from Norman Macleod, The Lord’s Day (1865)

10. Extracts from Thomas Guthrie, The Principles of the Free Church of Scotland, and a Plea for the Ante-Disruption Ministers (1859)

Forms of Dissent　

11. Charles Wesley, selections from Hymn Book of the United Methodist Free Churches (1867)

12. Extracts from Mary Fletcher, The Life of Mrs Mary Fletcher, Consort and Relict of the Rev. John Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley, Salop (1817)

13. Extracts from Henry Richard, ‘The Established Church in Wales’ (1871)

14. William Williams Pantycelyn, ‘’Rwy’n edrych dros y bryniau pell’ (‘I look across the distant hills’) [n.d]

15. Ann Griffiths, ‘Wele’n sefyll rhwng y myrtwydd’ (‘See him

stand among the myrtles’) [n.d.]　

16. Extracts from Lant Carpenter, The Beneficial Tendency of

Unitarianism (1845)

17. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘The New Commandment’ [n.d.]

18. Extracts from Thomas Clarkson, A Portraiture of Quakerism (1806)

19. Extract from J. N. Darby, Reflections on the Ruined Condition

of the Church (1841)

20. A. N. Groves, ‘On Departure from Catholic Christianity’ (1836)

21. John Jaques, ‘Necessity of a Living Prophet. Part 1’ (1853)

22. [Anon.], ‘Gathering’ (1853)

23. William G. Mills, ‘Our Home at Great Salt Lake’ (1853)

24. Extracts from Nathan Marcus Adler, The Jewish Faith (1848)

25. Nina Davis, ‘The Ark of the Covenant’ (1895)

26. Extract from D. W. Marks, Discourse Delivered at the Consecration of the West London Synagogue of British Jews (1842)

27. Extracts from Lily Montagu, ‘Spiritual Possibilities of Judaism Today’ (1899)

28. Extracts from Rammohun Roy, Translation of an Abridgement of the Vedant, or, a Resolution of All the Veds (1816)

29. Miss Acland, ‘The Rajah’s Tomb’ (1866)

30. Extract from Kissory Chand Mittra, ‘The Last Days in England of Rajah Rammohun Roy’ (1866)　

31. Extracts from Dadabhai Naoroji, The Parsee Religion (1861)

32. Extracts from Syed Ameer Ali, The Life and Teachings of Mohammed (1891)

33. Extracts from Joseph Rayner Stephens, The Political Preacher (1839)

34. [Anon.], ‘Hymn Thirteenth’ (1835)

35. John Henry Bramwich, ‘A Hymn’ (1846)

36. Thomas Cooper, ‘God of the Earth, And Sea, And Sky’ (1842)　

37. Extract from Frances Power Cobbe, Italics (1864)

38. Extract from Josephine E. Butler, ‘Introduction’ to Woman’s Work and Woman’s Culture (1869)　

39. Mary Howitt, ‘The Spirit of Poetry’ (1847)

40. Extract from Anna B. Jameson, ‘Introduction’ to Sacred and Legendary Art (1848)　

41. Extracts from Theodore Parker, ‘The Relation of the Religious Sentiment to God’ (1842)

42. Extract from J. R. Illingworth, Divine Immanence (1898)