Helen Boyles

Romanticism and Methodism

The problem of religious enthusiasm

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the intense relationship between Romantic literature and Methodism, Helen Boyles argues that writers from both movements display an ambivalent attitude towards the expression of deep emotional and spiritual experience. Boyles takes up the disparaging characterization of William Wordsworth and other Romantic poets as 'Methodistical,' showi

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780367882143
• ISBN-10: 0367882140
• Artikelnr.: 58439585

Autorenporträt

Helen Boyles is Associate Lecturer in the Faculties of Arts and Humanities and Honorary Research Associate in the English Department at the Open University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. John Wesley's mission: steering a course between sound and spurious
enthusiasm
2. Restraining strategies: seeking a balance between emotion and reason in
Wesleyan discourse
3. Divided Feelings on Methodist Enthusiasm: Southey and Coleridge's Debate
4. Wordsworth's early exposure to Methodist enthusiasm
5. Common missions in Wordsworth's Preface to The Lyrical Ballads and John
Wesley's Preface to the Methodist Hymns
6. Literary Dissent: The 'common voice' in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads
7. Evangelical style and sentiment in The Excursion and Peter Bell
8. William Hazlitt's 'gusto' and enthusiasm
Conclusion
The Broader Picture