Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740-1860 PDF
Preview Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740-1860
RELIGIOUS DISSENT AND THE – 1740–1860 AIKIN BARBAULD CIRCLE, Recent criticism is now fully appreciating the nuanced and complex contribution made by Dissenters to the culture and ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain. This is the first sus- tainedstudyofaDissentingfamily–theAikins–fromthe1740sto the1860s.Essaysbyliterarycritics,historiansofreligionandscience, and geographers explore and contextualize the achievements of this remarkablefamily,includingJohnAikinsenior,tutoratthecelebrated WarringtonAcademy,andhischildren:poetAnnaLetitiaBarbauld, and John Aikin junior, literary physician and editor. The latter’s children in turn were leading professionals and writers in the early Victorianera.Thisstudyprovidesnewperspectivesonthesocialand cultural importance of the family and its circle – an untold story of collaborationandexchange,andanarrativewhichbreaksdownperiod boundariestosetEnlightenmentandVictoriancultureindialogue. felicity james isLecturerinEighteenth-andNineteenth-century LiteratureattheUniversityofLeicester. ian inkster is Research Professor of International History in the Faculty of Humanities, at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and Professor of Global History in the Department of International StudiesatWenzaoUrsulineCollege,Kaohsiung,TaiwanROC. RELIGIOUS DISSENT AND – THE AIKIN BARBAULD 1740–1860 CIRCLE, edited by FELICITY JAMES AND IAN INKSTER cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,Tokyo,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107008083 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2012 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2012 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary isbn978-1-107-00808-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Contents Notesontheeditorsandcontributors page vii Foreword isabel rivers and david l. wykes xi Acknowledgements xiii 1 ReligiousDissentandtheAikin–Barbauldcircle,1740–1860: anintroduction felicity james 1 2 TheRevdJohnAikinsenior:KibworthSchool andWarringtonAcademy david l. wykes 28 3 HowDissentmadeAnnaLetitiaBarbauld,andwhatshe madeofDissent william mccarthy 52 4 ‘AndmakethineownApollodoublythine’:JohnAikin asliteraryphysicianandtheintersectionofmedicine, moralityandpolitics kathryn ready 70 5 ‘Outlinemapsofknowledge’:JohnAikin’sgeographical imagination stephen daniels and paul elliott 94 6 ‘Undertheeyeofthepublic’:ArthurAikin(1773–1854), theDissentingmindandthecharacterofEnglish industrialization ian inkster 126 v vi Contents 7 ‘Thedifferentgeniusofwoman’:LucyAikin’shistoriography michelle levy 156 8 LucyAikinandthelegaciesofDissent felicity james 183 9 TheAikinfamily,retrospectively anne f. janowitz 205 Bibliography 230 Index 249 Notes on the editors and contributors EDITORS felicity james is Lecturer in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Literature at the University of Leicester. Her first book, Charles Lamb, ColeridgeandWordsworth:ReadingFriendshipinthe1790s(2008)rereads Lamb’s position as an urban, Dissenting Romantic. She has recently published articles on Coleridge, Mary Hays and Harriet Martineau, and is currently working on a study of life writing and Dissent across the Romantic and Victorian periods, which stems from research undertakenduringaBritishAcademyPostdoctoralFellowshipatChrist Church,Oxford(2005–8). ian inkster was born in Warrington and is Research Professor of International History at Nottingham Trent University (UK) and Professor of Global History at Wenzao Ursuline College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Work on British culture and the process of industrialization is illustrated in his collected essays Scientific Culture and Urbanisation in Industrialising Britain (1997) and his recent paper, ‘Potentially Global: A Story of Useful and Reliable Knowledge and Material Progress in Europe circa 1474–1914’, InternationalHistory Review, 28 (2006),237–86. Editor of History of Technology (UK) since 2001, Inkster is the author of The Japanese Industrial Economy: Late Development and Cultural Causation (2001) and Science and Technology in History: An Approach to Industrialisation(1991). CONTRIBUTORS stephen daniels holdstheChairofHumanGeographyasProfessorof CulturalGeographyattheUniversityofNottinghamwherehehasworked since1980.Since2005hehasbeenDirectoroftheArtsandHumanities Research Council’s programme in landscape and environment, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009. His works on long vii viii Notes on the editors and contributors eighteenth-century subjects include Humphry Repton: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England (1999) and Joseph Wright (1999), the exhibition catalogue Paul Sandby 1731–1809: Picturing Britain (2009) co-edited with John Bonehill, and book contributions on the art and aesthetics of Loutherbourg, Turner and UvedalePrice. paul elliott is Lecturer in History at the University of Derby and a special lecturer at the University of Nottingham. His research interests includeeighteenth-andnineteenth-centuryurbanhistory,scientificand intellectual history and the history of education, and he has published TheDerbyPhilosophers:ScienceandCultureinBritishUrbanSociety,1750– 1850 (2009); Enlightenment, Modernity and Science (Tauris, 2010); and (co-authored with Charles Watkins and Stephen Daniels) The British Arboretum(2011). anne f. janowitz is Professor of Romantic Poetry at Queen Mary, UniversityofLondon.SheistheauthorofEngland’sRuins:PoeticPurpose and the National Landscape (1990), Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition (1998) and Women Romantic Poets: Anna Barbauld and Mary Robinson (2005). She is at present writing about the night sky in eighteenth-centurypoetry. michellelevyisAssociateProfessorofEnglishatSimonFraserUniversity, inBritishColumbia.SheistheauthorofFamilyAuthorshipandRomantic PrintCulture(2008),astudyoftheconjunctionofauthorshipandfamily life as a distinctive cultural formation of the Romantic period that examines the literary practices and texts of the Aikins, Wordsworths, Coleridges, Godwins and Shelleys. She has recently completed, with Anne K. Mellor, an edition of Lucy Aikin’s Epistles on Women and OtherWorks(2011). william mccarthy istheauthorofAnnaLetitiaBarbauld,Voiceofthe Enlightenment(2008),winneroftheASECSAnnibelJenkinsBiography Prize2011.Heisco-editor,withElizabethKraft,ofBarbauld’scollected poems (1994) and the anthology Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry andProse(2002). kathryn ready is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg.Hergeneralfieldiseighteenth-andearlynineteenth-century Britishliteratureandculture,withparticularinterestsinwomenwriters, religious Dissent, and science and literature. Dr Ready has published Notesontheeditorsandcontributors ix articlesonvariousmembersoftheAikinfamilyinEighteenth-centuryLife, Eighteenth-century Women, History of European Ideas, Symbiosis and Women’s Writing. She has received a Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncilofCanadaStandardResearchGrantforamonograph project,‘“TheFreedomoftheMind”:TheAikinFamilyandtheLegacy ofRationalDissentingSociability’,andisplanningasecondmonograph projectontheeighteenth-centuryliteraryphysician. davidl.wykesisDirectorofDrWilliams’sTrustandLibrary,and,with Professor Isabel Rivers, Co-Director of the Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. He is also an honorary reader at Queen Mary, University of London. He edited Parliament and Dissent, with Stephen Taylor (2005), and with Isabel Rivers Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Philosopher, andTheologian(2008)andDissentingPraise:ReligiousDissentandtheHymn inEnglandandWales(2011).Hehaspublishedmanyessaysandarticleson DissentingandUnitarianhistory.TogetherwithIsabelRiversheiscurrently workingonamajornewstudy,AHistoryoftheDissentingAcademiesinthe British Isles, 1660–1860, in association with Richard Whatmore of Sussex University.
The list of books you might like
