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Chapter 12 - Sermons and Lectures

from Part II - Literary Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2021

Jeffrey W. Barbeau
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Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Affiliation:
Wheaton College, Illinois
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This essay explores the intersection of religion and literature in sermons and lectures during the British Romantic period. The essay traces the advance of elocutionary advice in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and demonstrates how interest in orality proliferated the printing of both sermons and lectures on religious themes. In addition to noted figures such as S. T. Coleridge, William Hazlitt, and Edward Irving, women’s voices emerged during the time, as women in dissenting religious circles set the stage for the first public lectures by women in Britain.

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British RomanticismsermonselocutionlectureliteraryJohn ThelwallWilliam HazlittSamuel Taylor ColeridgeElizabeth SharplesHyman Hurwitz
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The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion , pp. 197 - 216
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Barbeau, Jeffrey W., ed. Religion in Romantic England: An Anthology of Primary Sources. Waco, TX, 2018.Google Scholar
Ellison, Robert H., ed. A New History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century. Leiden, 2010.Google Scholar
Francis, Keith A. and Gibson, William, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon, 1689–1901. Oxford, 2012.Google Scholar
Valenze, Deborah M. Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England. Princeton, NJ, 1985.Google Scholar
Zimmerman, Sarah. The Romantic Literary Lecture in Britain. Oxford, 2019.Google Scholar

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