The first comprehensive study of the dissenting hymn in England and Wales. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including the style, language, and theology of hymns; their editing, publication, and reception; their role in promoting evangelical Christianity; their shaping of denominational identities; and the practice of hymn-singing.
The first comprehensive study of the dissenting hymn in England and Wales. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including the style, language, and theology of hymns; their editing, publication, and reception; their role in promoting evangelical Christianity; their shaping of denominational identities; and the practice of hymn-singing.
Isabel Rivers obtained her BA at Girton College, Cambridge and her PhD at Columbia University. A former Reader at the University of Leicester and Reader and Professor at the University of Oxford, since 2004 she has been Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, and Co-Director of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies. Her main interests are in the relations between literature, religion, philosophy, and the history of the book in the long eighteenth century. David Wykes obtained his BSc at Durham and his PhD at Leicester, where he taught for many years. He has been Director of Dr Williams's Library, London, since 1998, and Co-Director of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies since it was established in September 2004. He is an Honorary Reader in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. His main interests are the history of religious dissent from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1: Elizabeth Clarke: Hymns, Psalms, and Controversy in the Seventeenth Century * 2: J. R. Watson: The Hymns of Isaac Watts and the Tradition of Dissent * 3: Françoise Deconinck-Brossard: The Circulation and Reception of Philip Doddridge's Hymns * 4: Ken Manley: John Rippon and Baptist Hymnody * 5: David M. Thompson: Finding Successors to 'the Poet of the Sanctuary': Josiah Conder in Context * 6: Clyde Binfield: W. Garrett Horder and Congregational Hymnody: An Introduction to The Hymn Lover and its Author * 7: Alan Ruston: James Martineau and the Evolution of Unitarian Hymnody * 8: Nicholas Temperley: The Music of Dissent * 9: E. Wyn James: The Evolution of the Welsh Hymn
* Introduction * 1: Elizabeth Clarke: Hymns, Psalms, and Controversy in the Seventeenth Century * 2: J. R. Watson: The Hymns of Isaac Watts and the Tradition of Dissent * 3: Françoise Deconinck-Brossard: The Circulation and Reception of Philip Doddridge's Hymns * 4: Ken Manley: John Rippon and Baptist Hymnody * 5: David M. Thompson: Finding Successors to 'the Poet of the Sanctuary': Josiah Conder in Context * 6: Clyde Binfield: W. Garrett Horder and Congregational Hymnody: An Introduction to The Hymn Lover and its Author * 7: Alan Ruston: James Martineau and the Evolution of Unitarian Hymnody * 8: Nicholas Temperley: The Music of Dissent * 9: E. Wyn James: The Evolution of the Welsh Hymn
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