Abrams — Natural Supernaturalism

Abrams, M. H. Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature. New York: Norton, 1972.

Chapters: 1. “This Is Our High Argument.” 2. “Wordsworth’s Prelude and the Crisis-Autobiography.” 3. “The Circuitous Journey: Pilgrims and Prodigals.” 4. “The Circuitous Journey: Through Alienation to Reintegration.”  5. “The Circuitous Journey: From Blake to D. H. Lawrence.” 6. “Revelation, Revolution, Imagination, and Cognition.” 7. “The Poet’s Vision: The New Earth and the Old.” 8. “The Poet’s Vision: Romantic and Post-Romantic.” Appendix: “Wordsworth’s Prospectus for The Recluse.”

Fishman — Watered Garden

Fishman, Sylvia Barack. “The Watered Garden and the Bride of God: Patterns of Biblical Imagery in Poems of Spenser, Milton, and Blake.” Ph.D. dissertation.

Dissertation Abstracts International 41 (1980): 1063A.

Talon — William Law

Talon, Henri A. William Law: A Study in Literary Craftsmanship. London: Rockliff, 1948.

Review: Ernest Wall, Religion in Life 18, no. 4 (Autumn, 1949): 614–15.

Maybee — Anglicans and Nonconformists

Maybee, John R. “Anglicans and Nonconformists, 1697–1704: A Study in the Background of Swift’s A Tale of a Tub.” Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University.

Dissertation Abstracts 12 (1972): 305–06.

Woodhouse — Poet and His Faith

Woodhouse, A. S. P. The Poet and His Faith: Religion and Poetry in England from Spenser to Eliot and Auden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Contents: I. Definitions: religion, poetry, history — II. Elizabethan religion and poetry: Spenser and Southwell — III. The seventeenth century: Donne and his successors — IV. Milton — V. Religion and poetry, 1660–1780 — VI. The romantics: 1780–1840 — VII. The Victorian age: 1840–1900 — VIII. The twentieth century.

Clifford — Pope and His Contemporaries

Clifford, James L., and Louis A. Landa, eds. Pope and His Contemporaries: Essays Presented to George Sherburn. Oxford: 1949.

Herbert Davis, “The Manuscript of Swift’s Sermon ‘On Brotherly Love,’” pp. 147–58; Louis A. Landa, “Swift’s Deanery Income: A New Document,” pp. 159–70.

Rivers — Books and Their Readers

Rivers, Isabel, ed. Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England. Leicester: Leicester University Press; New York: St. Martin’s, 1982.

Thomas R. Preston, “Biblical Criticism, Literature, and the Eighteenth-Century Reader.”

Chan — Historical Models for the Priest as Pastor

Chan, Henry Albert. “Historical Models for the Priest as Pastor from a Study of the Major Works of Gregory the Great, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas à Kempis, George Herbert, Richard Baxter, William Law and Urban T. Holmes, III.” D.Min. thesis, University of the South, 1987.

McHenry — Anglican Rationalism

McHenry, Robert W., Jr. “Anglican Rationalism, Right Reason, and John Dryden.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1973.

Dissertation Abstracts International 33 (1973): 5132A.

Devotional Poetry

“Devotional Poetry: Donne to Wesley. The Search for an Unknown Eden.” Times Literary Supplement, 24 December 1938, pp. 814, 816.

Clarke — The Church and Literature

Clarke, Peter, and Charlotte Methuen, eds. The Church and Literature. Woodbridge, Suffolk: published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by the Boydell Press, 2012.

Papers delivered at the Ecclesiastical History Society, Summer Meeting, 2010.

Seeking meaning behind epistolary clichés: intercessory prayer clauses in Christian letters / Renie Choy — Gregory the Great: reader, writer and read / Daniel Anlezark — Was anyone listening? Christian apologetics against Islam as a literary genre / Jessica Lee Ehinger — Frivolity and reform in the church : the Irish experience, 1066–1166 / David N. Dumville — Ecclesiology on the edge: Dante and the church / John Took — “No milkless cow”: the cross of Christ in medieval Irish literature / Salvador Ryan — “Y Ganrif Fawr”? piety, literature and patronage in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Wales / Katharine K. Olson — The biblical verse of Hans Sachs : the popularization of Scripture in the Lutheran Reformation / Philip Broadhead — Thomas More’s Confutation: a literary failure? / Eamon Duffy — Staging vice and acting evil: theatre and anti-theatre in early modern England / George Oppitz-Trotman — William Perkins’s The arte of prophecying: a literary manifesto / W. B. Patterson — Milton’s churches / Thomas N. Corns — Anti-Catholicism and obscene literature: The case of Mrs. Mary Catherine Cadiere and its context / Colin Haydon — English convents in eighteenth-century travel literature / Caroline Watkinson — A novel resistance: mission narrative as the anti-novel in the evangelical assault on British culture / Benjamin L. Fischer — Reserve and physical imagery in the Tractarian poetry of Isaac Williams (1802-65) / John Boneham — W. E. Heygate: Tractarian clerical novelist / George Herring — A writer or a religious?: Lady Georgiana Fullerton’s dilemma / Kathleen Jaeger — Writing the Sabbath: the literature of the nineteenth-century Sunday observance debate / Martin Spence — The pastor chief and other stories: Waldensian historical fiction in the nineteenth century / Mark Smith — The Jesuit as villain in nineteenth-century British fiction / John Wolffe — Christian Dickens / Andrew Sanders — Disraeli’s novels: religion and identity / David Brooks — Breadth from dissent: Ada Ellen Bayly (“Edna Lyall”) and her fiction / Clyde Binfield — “Pulp Methodism” revisited: the literature and significance of Silas and Joseph Hocking / Martin Wellings — Some popes in English literature c. 1850-1950 / Bernard Hamilton — Jesuit pulp fiction: the serial novels of Antonio Bresciani in La civiltà cattolica / Oliver Logan — Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest and novelist: presidential address / Sheridan Gilley — “Oh dear, if only the Reformation had happened differently”: Anglicanism, the Reformation and Dame Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) / Judith Maltby — The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chamberlain and the censorship of the theatre, 1909–49 / Peter Webster — The trials of Lady Chatterley, the modernist bishop and the Victorian archbishop: clashes of class, culture and generations / Stuart Mews — The cloister and the crime: medieval monks in modern murder-mysteries / Sarah Foot — Piety and polemic in evangelical prophecy fiction, 1995–2000 / Crawford Gribben.

Library of Congress.

O’Connell — Origins of the English Marriage Plot

O’Connell, Lisa. The Origins of the English Marriage Plot: Literature, Politics and Religion in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

“Why did marriage become central to the English novel in the eighteenth-century? As clandestine weddings and the unruly culture that surrounded them began to threaten power and property, questions about where and how to marry became urgent matters of public debate. In 1753, in an unprecedented and controversial use of state power, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke mandated Anglican church weddings as marriage’s only legal form. Resistance to his Marriage Act would fuel a new kind of realist marriage plot in England and help to produce political radicalism as we know it. Focusing on how major authors from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen made church weddings a lynchpin of their fiction, The Origins of the English Marriage Plot offers a truly innovative account of the rise of the novel by telling the story of the English marriage plot’s engagement with the most compelling political and social questions of its time.”