Orthodoxy And Heresy In Eighteenth-century Society: Essays From The Debartolo Conference (the Bucknell Studies In Eighteenth-century Literature And Culture)

orthodoxy And Heresy In Eighteenth-century Society Uses The Concept Of Heresy To Gain Insight Into The Value Of Social Order In Eighteenth-century England And France. By Applying The Vocabulary Of Religion To Behaviors That Might More Usually Be Studied As Deviant, The Contributors Account For The Complexity And Vehemence Of Conflicts Over Right Order Played Out In The Literary, Artistic, And Political Arenas Of The Age. booknews a Dozen Essays Record The 11th Annual Debartolo Conference On Eighteen-century Studies, Held In Tampa, Florida. Contributors Primarily From Literary Studies, But Also History Explore Heresy As The Quest For The Forbidden In The Arts And Sciences And The Conduct Of Private And Public Life, As Well As In Religion. By Focusing On The Condemnatory Language Of Theology That Social Scientists Tend To Shy Away From, They Show How People Upholding Norms In Any Area Of Experience Treat The Order They Defend As Sacred. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com) Contents......Page 6 Illustrations......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 Introduction......Page 14 Where the Wild Things Are: Guides to London’s Transgressive Spaces......Page 28 Sedition, Vice, and Atheism: The Limits of Toleration and the Orthodox Attack on Rational Religion in Late-Eighteenth-Century England......Page 52 Breaking All the Rules: The Worsley Affair in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain......Page 70 Plagued by Enthusiasm: Swift’s Fear of Infectious Dissent and His Argument against Abolishing Christian Quarantine in A Tale of a Tub......Page 90 Apocalypse Then: Pope and the Prophets of Dulness......Page 113 Junius: An Orthodox Rebel......Page 135 Simon Jaillot: Sculptor, Pamphleteer, Outcast......Page 155 The Gnostic Clarissa......Page 177 Eros Heretic: Transgression Generic and Religious in and out of Diderot’s L’Oiseau blanc, conte bleu......Page 208 Sade and Nerciat: Marginality in Search of an Erotology......Page 231 Olympe de Gouges: Revolutionary in Search of an Audience......Page 248 Meat, Ethics, and the Case of John Wesley......Page 268 Suggestions for Further Reading......Page 282 Contributors......Page 287 C......Page 290 H......Page 291 M......Page 292 S......Page 293 W......Page 294 "Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth-Century Society uses the concept of "heresy" to gain insight into the value of social order in eighteenth-century England and France. By applying the vocabulary of religion to behaviors that might more usually be studied as "deviant," the contributors account for the complexity and vehemence of conflicts over right order played out in the literary, artistic, and political arenas of the age."--BOOK JACKET.