1st Edition
Romanticism and Methodism The problem of religious enthusiasm
Introduction
1. John Wesley’s mission: steering a course between sound and spurious enthusiasm
2. Restraining strategies: seeking a balance between emotion and reason in Wesleyan discourse
3. Divided Feelings on Methodist Enthusiasm: Southey and Coleridge’s Debate
4. Wordsworth’s early exposure to Methodist enthusiasm
5. Common missions in Wordsworth’s Preface to The Lyrical Ballads and John Wesley’s Preface to the Methodist Hymns
6. Literary Dissent: The ‘common voice’ in Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
7. Evangelical style and sentiment in The Excursion and Peter Bell
8. William Hazlitt’s ‘gusto’ and enthusiasm
Conclusion
The Broader Picture
Biography
Helen Boyles is Associate Lecturer in the Faculties of Arts and Humanities and Honorary Research Associate in the English Department at the Open University, UK.
