Lake Methodism

by Jasper Cragwall

Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830, reveals the traffic between Romanticism's rhetorics of privilege and the most socially toxic religious forms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The "Lake Poets," of whom William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are the most famous, are often seen as crafters of a poetics of spontaneous inspiration, transcendent imagination, and visionary prophecy, couched...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814254128
• ISBN13: 9780814254127
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"