1st Edition
Methodism and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism Reviewing the Revival
Introduction
1 Popular Review Criticism, Methodism, and the Public Sphere
2 Reviewing Methodism in Devotional and Polemical Literature
3 Reviewing Whitefield and Wesley
4 Anti-Methodism and Belletristic Critique
5 Reviewing the Oxford Expulsion and the Minutes Controversy
6 The Legacy of the Monthly and the Critical Reviews
Epilogue
Biography
Brett McInelly is a Professor in the English Department at Brigham Young University, USA. His publications include Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism (2014).
"To find myself reviewing a book about book reviews is ironic to say the least. Thankfully, this review – unlike many of those explored in this book – is an overwhelmingly positive one, devoid of the ‘hostile attitudes’ encountered by early Methodist authors [...]. By showing that anti-Methodist literature reached a much broader audience than previously thought, this book makes an invaluable contribution to the study of eighteenth-century Methodism. Crucially, by showing that reviewers often voiced their own opinions relating to matters of doctrine, McInelly has enhanced our understanding of the important – but largely neglected – role played by the laity in eighteenth-century theological controversies." - Simon Lewis in Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society
