Vanity Fair and the Celestial City: Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England 1720-1800

by Isabel Rivers

In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth century, and of the dramatic expansion of popular publishing. Similarly, much has been written on the extraordinary effects of the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019826996X
• ISBN13: 9780198269960
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"