Dissenting histories
Subtitle: religious division and the politics of memory in eighteenth-century England
By: John Seed.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780748621514
Subjects: Religious thought -- England -- 18th century; Dissenters, Religious -- England -- History -- 18th century; Freedom of religion -- England -- History -- 18th century; Freedom of religion -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- 18th century; Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century; Freedom of religion in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: remembering the present; title: The debt of memory : Edmund Calamy and the Dissenters in Restoration England; title: Protestant liberty : Daniel Neal and The history of the Puritans; title: Enthusiasts, Puritans and politics : David Hume's History of England; title: Englightenment, Republicanism and dissent : William Harris's Histories; title: Dissenting histories in the 1770s and 1780s; title: 'The fiction of ancestry' : Burke, history and the Dissenters; title: Conclusion.