The evangelical conversion narrative spiritual autobiography in early modern England
This book traces the rise and progress of 'conversion narrative' in England during the 17th and 18th centuries and establishes some of the cultural conditions that allowed the genre to proliferate
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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9780191602436, 9780199245758, 0191602434, 0199245754
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Introduction ; 1. Early Modern Origins: The Rise of Popular Conversion Narrative ; 2. The Revival of Conversion Narrative: Evangelical Awakening in the Eighteenth Century ; 3. The Early Methodist Journalists: George Whitefield and John Wesley ; 4. White-Hot Piety: The Early Methodist Lay People ; 5. 'Poor Sinnership': Moravian Narrative Culture ; 6. 'The Word Came in with Power': Conversions at Cambuslang ; 7. 'A Nail Fixed in a Sure Place': The Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers ; 8. The Olney Autobiographers: Conversion Narrative and Personality ; 9. The Seventeenth Century Reprised: Conversion Narrative and the Gathered Church ; 10. After Christendom: Evangelical Conversion Narrative and its Alternatives