Imagined spiritual communities in Britain's age of print /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	King, Joshua, 1979- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2015]
Series:	Literature, religion, and postsecular studies.
Subjects:	Religion and literature > England > 19th century > History. Religion and the press > England > 19th century > History. Christianity and literature > England > History > 19th century. Spiritual formation.

Table of Contents:

Coleridge's Aids to reflection: the clerisy and a national spiritual republic of letters
F.D. Maurice's universal society: national spiritual community in a sectarian print culture
Arnold's poetic national church: anarchy and the charming force of poetry
John Keble's Christian year: private reading and imagined national religious community
Tennyson's "New Christian Year": in memoriam and the minimum of faith
In Memoriam's open secret: the public forms of private faith
Christina Rossetti's Verses: a multi-fashioned community of strangers
The end of print-mediated Christian Britain and the rise of digital spiritual communities.