Dissenting Histories: Religious Division and the Politics of Memory in Eighteenth-Century England

John Seed

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2008

Dissenting Histories

Religious Division and the Politics of Memory in Eighteenth-Century England

John Seed

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748629480

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The first major study of the historical writings of religious dissenters in England between the 1690s and the 1790s, this book redefines the way we understand religious and political identities in the eighteenth century.

Dissenting Histories provides a synoptic overview of the development of religious dissent in England between the Restoration and the early nineteenth century, using Dissenters' writings to open up new and different perspectives on how the past was perceived in this period. These writings are located within the wider political culture and the author explores how the long shadow of 'the Great Rebellion' of the 1640s stretched across the division between Church and Dissent.

The author is not simply concerned with history as a representation of the past, but history also as part of the bitterly divided collective memory of the present. Focusing on the relationship between the history that historians wrote, and the history that men and women experienced, John Seed provides the reader with new perspectives on eighteenth-century England.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction: Remembering the Present Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 The Debt of Memory: Edmund Calamy and the Dissenters in Restoration England Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2 Protestant Liberty: Daniel Neal and The History of the Puritans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3 Enthusiasts, Puritans and Politics: David Hume’s History of England Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
4 Enlightenment, Republicanism and Dissent: William Harris’s Histories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
5 Dissenting Histories in the 1770s and 1780s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
6 ‘The Fiction of Ancestry’: Burke, History and the Dissenters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Keywords: History

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Published: November 26, 2008
ISBN: 9780748629480