Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
Cover of the book Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print by Joshua King, Ohio State University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Joshua King ISBN: 9780814275047
Publisher: Ohio State University Press Publication: October 21, 2015
Imprint: Ohio State University Press Language: English
Author: Joshua King
ISBN: 9780814275047
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Publication: October 21, 2015
Imprint: Ohio State University Press
Language: English

In Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print, Joshua King demonstrates how nineteenth-century Britons turned to the printed page to imagine themselves in Christian communities spanning their nation. In contrast with traditional views of the nineteenth century, which regard the period as a turning point for religion from a public life to a privatized decline, Imagined Spiritual Communities argues that the rapid growth of print culture and a voluntary religious market inspired vigorous efforts to form virtual national congregations of readers.
 
Focusing primarily on the work of Anglicans between the 1820s and 1890s, this study begins by freshly interpreting reading and educational programs promoted by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frederick Denison Maurice, and Matthew Arnold. King then traces the emergence of John Keble’s Christian Year as a catalyst for competing visions of a Christian nation united by private reading. He argues that this phenomenon illuminates the structure and reception of best-selling poetic cycles as diverse as Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Christina Rossetti’s late Verses.  Ultimately, Imagined Spiritual Communities reveals how dreams of print-mediated spiritual communion generated new poetic genres and rhetorical strategies, theories and theologies of media and reading, and ambitious schemes of education and church reform.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

In Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print, Joshua King demonstrates how nineteenth-century Britons turned to the printed page to imagine themselves in Christian communities spanning their nation. In contrast with traditional views of the nineteenth century, which regard the period as a turning point for religion from a public life to a privatized decline, Imagined Spiritual Communities argues that the rapid growth of print culture and a voluntary religious market inspired vigorous efforts to form virtual national congregations of readers.
 
Focusing primarily on the work of Anglicans between the 1820s and 1890s, this study begins by freshly interpreting reading and educational programs promoted by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frederick Denison Maurice, and Matthew Arnold. King then traces the emergence of John Keble’s Christian Year as a catalyst for competing visions of a Christian nation united by private reading. He argues that this phenomenon illuminates the structure and reception of best-selling poetic cycles as diverse as Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Christina Rossetti’s late Verses.  Ultimately, Imagined Spiritual Communities reveals how dreams of print-mediated spiritual communion generated new poetic genres and rhetorical strategies, theories and theologies of media and reading, and ambitious schemes of education and church reform.

More books from Ohio State University Press

Cover of the book Reality Bites by Joshua King
Cover of the book History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1855–1870 by Joshua King
Cover of the book The Problem Body by Joshua King
Cover of the book A Theology of Sense by Joshua King
Cover of the book Arms and the Woman by Joshua King
Cover of the book Sponsored Migration by Joshua King
Cover of the book Narrative Theory by Joshua King
Cover of the book Somewhere in Space by Joshua King
Cover of the book Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Joshua King
Cover of the book Curiouser and Curiouser by Joshua King
Cover of the book Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative by Joshua King
Cover of the book The Trouble with Men by Joshua King
Cover of the book Financial Basics by Joshua King
Cover of the book Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature by Joshua King
Cover of the book Novel Nostalgias by Joshua King
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy