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979687
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b734057
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Branch, Lori.
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| Title & Author
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Rituals of spontaneity : : sentiment and secularism from free prayer to Wordsworth /\ Lori Branch.
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| Publication Statement
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Waco, Tex. :: Baylor University Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (xiii, 348 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1429467797
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: 1433709287
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: 9781429467797
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: 9781433709289
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-320) and index.
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| Contents
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The rejection of liturgy, the rise of free prayer, and modern religious subjectivity -- "As blood is forced out of flesh" : spontaneity and the wounds of exchange in Grace abounding and The pilgrim's progress -- "True enthusiasm" : moral sense philosophy and fissures of the secular self in Shaftesbury's private writings -- At the Sign of the Bible and Sun : John Newbery, The vicar of Wakefield, and the ghost of Christopher Smart -- Wordsworth's "spontaneous overflow" and the "high service within" : from Lyrical ballads to Ecclesiastical sonnets.
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a newfound love of spontaneity transformed Christian worship and revolutionized the Enlightenment's ''culture of sensibility.'' Rituals of Spontaneity tells the story of how and why spontaneity came to be so revered. Using archival material and works of Bunyan, Shaftesbury, Goldsmith, Smart and Wordsworth, Branch shows that the rise of spontaneity was intimately connected to the forces of commerce and science at the dawn of the Enlightenment. By focusing on the language in which spontaneity was defended and on its psychological repercussions, Ritual.
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Christian literature, English-- History and criticism.
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Christianity and culture-- Great Britain-- History.
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Christianity and literature-- Great Britain-- History.
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
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Prayer-- History.
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Secularism in literature.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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Spontaneity (Philosophy) in literature.
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Christian literature, English.
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Christianity and culture.
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Christianity and literature.
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Christliche Literatur
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English literature-- Early modern.
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English literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Prayer.
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Secularism in literature.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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Spontaneität
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Spontaneity (Philosophy) in literature.
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Riten.
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Englisch.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/384
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| LC Classification
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PR448.S75B73 2006eb
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| NLM classification
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11.00bcl
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