Methodism and the Rise of Popular Literary Criticism

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Brett McInelly is a Professor in the English Department at Brigham Young University, USA. His publications include Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism (2014).

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This book examines how Methodism and popular review criticism intersected with and informed each other in the eighteenth century. Methodism emerged at a time when the idea of a 'public square' was taking shape, a process facilitated by the periodical press.

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Introduction
1 Popular Review Criticism, Methodism, and the Public Sphere
2 Reviewing Methodism in Devotional and Polemical Literature
3 Reviewing Whitefield and Wesley
4 Anti-Methodism and Belletristic Critique
5 Reviewing the Oxford Expulsion and the Minutes Controversy
6 The Legacy of the Monthly and the Critical Reviews
Epilogue