The English sermon revised
Subtitle: religion, literature and history 1600-1750
By: edited by Lori Anne Ferrell and Peter McCullough.
Contributors: McCullough, Peter E.; Ferrell, Lori Anne, 1957-.
Series: Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Sermons, English.; Religion and politics -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Religion and politics -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Introduction. Revising the study of the English sermon / Lori Anne Ferrell and Peter McCullough; title: pt. 2. The rhetoric of preaching. 'Every man, that prints, adventures' : the rhetoric of the Virginia Company sermons / Andrew Fitzmaurice; title: Elect nations and prophetic preaching : types and examples in the Paul's Cross Jeremiad / Mary Morrissey; title: Thomas Playfere's poetics of preaching / Bryan Crockett; title: pt. 3. Sermons on emergent political occasions. Tuning the pulpits : the religious context of the Essex revolt / Arnold Hunt; title: Absolutist theology : the sermons of John Donne / Debora Shuger; title: Anti-Catholicism in the sermons of John Donne / Jeanne Shami; title: Joseph Hall, Robert Skinner and the rhetoric of moderation at the early Stuart court / Peter Lake; title: pt. 4. Sermons and the modern 'public sphere'. 'To lye upon a Stationers stall, like a piece of coarse flesh in a Shambles' : the sermon, print and the English Civil War / James Rigney; title: The sermon, the 'public sphere' and the political culture of late seventeenth-century England / Tony Claydon; title: Preaching in Parliament : patronage, publicity and politics in Britain, 1701-60 / James Caudle.