Rituals of spontaneity : sentiment and secularism from free prayer to Wordsworth /
Branch, Lori.
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-320) and index.
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.
English literature
Spontaneity (Philosophy) in literature.
English literature
Christian literature, English
Sentimentalism in literature.
Secularism in literature.
Christianity and literature
Christianity and culture
Prayer