Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740-1860

by Felicity James

Book Overview

Recent criticism is now fully appreciating the nuanced and complex contribution made by Dissenters to the culture and ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain. This is the first sustained study of a Dissenting family - the Aikins - from the 1740s to the 1860s. Essays by literary critics, historians of religion and science, and geographers explore and contextualise the achievements of this remarkable family, including John Aikin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107442494
• ISBN13: 9781107442498
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"