Title Visions of British culture from the reformation to romanticism : the Protestant discovery of tradition / Celestina Savonius-Wroth

Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource Series Histories of the sacred and secular, 1700-2000 Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000. Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Ritual, Ceremony, and Custom in the Aftermath of the British Reformations -- 3. "Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaism" : Erudition, Polemic, and Apologetics in the Study of British Customs -- 4. The Antiquities of the Common People -- 5. Embodied Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain: "All Mankind Are the Vulgar in This Respect" -- 6. Religion in the Bardic Revival -- 7. Against the Cold Calculus of Modernity -- 8. Conclusion Summary This book is a major new contribution to the study of cultural identities in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to Romanticism. It provides a fresh perspective on the rise of interest in British vernacular (or "folk") cultures, which has often been elided with the emergence of British Romanticism and its Continental precursors. Here the Romantics discovery of and admiration for vernacular traditions is placed in a longer historical timeline reaching back to the controversies sparked by the Protestant Reformation. The book charts the emergence of a nuanced discourse about vernacular cultures, developing in response to the Reformers devastating attack on customary practices and beliefs relating to the natural world, seasonal festivities, and rites of passage. It became a discourse grounded in humanist Biblical and antiquarian scholarship; informed by the theological and pastoral problems of the long period of religious instability after the Reformation; and, over the course of the eighteenth century, colored by new ideas about culture drawn from Enlightenment historicism and empiricism. This study shows that Romantic literary primitivism and Romantic social thought, both radical and conservative, grew out of this rich context. It will be welcomed by historians of early modern and eighteenth-century Britain and those interested in the study of religious and vernacular cultures. Celestina Savonius-Wroth is Assistant Professor, History Librarian, and Head of the History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She holds a doctorate in British history from Indiana University Bloomington Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject National characteristics, British. Civilization National characteristics, British SUBJECT Great Britain -- Civilization -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056623 Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056624 Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056625 Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056626 Subject Great Britain Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030828554 3030828557

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