Hannah More : 1789 : une révolution pour la littérature de colportage ?

Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution argues that Methodism in the eighteenth century was a media event that uniquely combined and utilized different types of media to reach a vast and diverse audience. Specifically, it traces specific cases of how evangelical and Methodist discourse practices interacted with major cultural and literary events during the long eighteenth-century, from the rise of the novel to the Revolution controversy of the 1790’s to the shifting ground for women writers leading up to the Reform era in the 1830’s. The book maps the religious discourse patterns of Methodism onto works by authors like Samuel Richardson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Tighe, and Felicia Hemans. This not only provides a better sense of the religious nuances of these authors’ better-known works, but also provides a fuller consideration of the wide variety of genres women were writing in during the period, many of which continue to be read as ‘non-literary’. The scope of the book leads the reader from the establishment of evangelical forms of discourse in the 1730’s to the natural ends of these discourse structures during the era of reform, all the while pointing to ways in which women—Methodist and otherwise—modified these discourse patterns as acts of resistance or subversion.

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Evangelicalism and Enlightenment: The Educational Agenda of Hannah More

Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain ◽

10.4324/9781315256962-8 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 51-66

Keyword(s):

Hannah More ◽

Educational Agenda

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The Shifting Discourse Culture of Methodism, 1791–1832

Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781789620184.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 142-175

Author(s):

Andrew O. Winckles

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Church Of England ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Hannah More ◽

Sunday Schools ◽

Discourse Practices ◽

The Church

This chapter lays out some of the shifts in Methodist discourse culture that occurred during the early nineteenth century and suggests that, in response to these changes, Methodist women found new ways to reach their audiences and work around the Methodist hierarchy. In particular, it focuses on the lives and writings of Sarah Crosby, Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Mary Tooth, and other members of their circle in order to illustrate how they adapted earlier Methodist discourse practices for new and potentially subversive purposes. It then turns to the work of evangelical Anglican Hannah More in the 1790’s and early 1800’s to consider how a very well-known female evangelical within the Church of England negotiated a shifting discursive terrain, especially in her Cheap Repository Tracts and her work with the Mendip Hills Sunday Schools which led to the Blagdon Controversy.

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