Sociability, solitude, and enthusiasm

Huntington Library Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 153-178

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References (69)

1. Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae (London, 1696)
2. Coleridge, Notes on English Divines, 39-40
3. See Susie I. Tucker, Enthusiasm: A Study in Semantic Change (Cambridge, 1972), 47-48, 167-68, 177
4. Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms (Norwich, 1703), 53
5. By implication, at least, there was also a contrast here between the spatially located and the placeless
6. Donald F. Bond, ed., The Spectator, 5 vols. (Oxford, 1965), 2:289 (No. 201, 20 October 1711)
7. John Mullan, Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1988)
8. Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, 1660-1770 (Oxford, 1989)
9. Richard van Dülmen, The Society of the Enlightenment: The Rise of the Middle Class and Enlightenment Culture in Germany, trans. Anthony Williams (New York, 1992)
10. Margaret Jacob, Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe (New York, 1991)
11. See, for example, Marvin B. Becker, The Emergence of Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1994)
12. Daniel Gordon, Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789 (Princeton, N.J., 1994)
13. and Lawrence E. Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness (Cambridge, 1994)
14. John Burrow, Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought (Oxford, 1988)
15. Nicholas Phillipson, "Politics and Politeness in the Reigns of Anne and the Early Hanoverians," in J. G. A. Pocock, ed., The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 1993), 211-45
16. and Istvan Hont, "The Language of Sociability and Commerce: Samuel Pufendorfand the Theoretical Foundations of the 'Four-Stages Theory,'" in Anthony Pagden, ed., The Languages of Political Theory in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1987), 253-76
17. Lionel Trilling, Sincerity and Authenticity (Cambridge, Mass., 1971)
18. Raymond Williams, Keywords (London, 1976), 243-47
19. Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms, 19-20
20. Benjamin Whichcote, Select Sermons (London, 1698), 181
21. Edward Fowler, The Design of Christianity (London, 1671), esp. chap. 5
22. Edward Fowler, The Principles and Practices, of Certain Moderate Divines of the Church of England (London, 1670), 37
23. Samuel Parker, A Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie, 3d ed. (London, 1671), xxviii
24. Samuel Parker, A Free and Impartial Censure of the Platonick Philosophie (Oxford, 1666), 23-24
25. For a survey of the attack on enthusiasm in this period, see Michael Heyd, "Be Sober and Reasonable": The Critique of Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries (Leiden, 1995)
26. see also Hillel Schwartz, The French Prophets: The History of a Millenarian Group in Eighteenth-Century England (Berkeley, Calif., 1980)
27. Ephraim Pagitt, Heresiography, Or A Description and History of the Hereticks and Sectaries Sprang up in These Latter Times (London, 1662), 35
28. See also J. G. A. Pocock, "Thomas Hobbes: Atheist or Enthusiast? His Place in a Restoration Debate," History of Political Thought 11 (1990): 737-49
29. Cf. Heraclitus Ridens, No. 19, 7 June 1681, which distinguished Church and State enthusiasts
30. The Character of a Quaker (London, 1671), 2
31. and Robert South, Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 5 vols. (Oxford, 1842), 3:147ff
32. Character of a Quaker, 6
33. Spurr, Restoration Church of England, 321
34. Parker, Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie, iv
35. These terms are sprinkled through the text; see pp. iv through xi
36. This and the next paragraph summarize sections of Heyd, Critique of Enthusiasm, 44-71, 191-210
37. On the association of Whiggism with religious extremism, see T. N. Corns, W. A. Speck, and J. A. Downie, "Archetypal Mystification: Polemic and Reality in English Political Literature, 1640-1750," Eighteenth-Century Life, n.s., 7 (1982): 7-11
38. For example, Richard Ashcraft, Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government (Princeton, N.J., 1986)
39. and Melinda S. Zook, Propagators of Revolution: Conspiratorial Politics and Radical Whig Culture in Late Stuart England (Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1993)
40. It could also be used in the Restoration decades to idealize a noble court
41. Abel Boyer, The English Theophrastus (London, 1702), 104
42. Donald F. Bond, ed., The Tatler, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1987), 2:341 (No. 149, 23 March 1710)
43. Bond, Spectator, 3:40 (No. 292, 4 February 1712)
44. Bond, Spectator, 4:253 (No. 494, 26 September 1712)
45. Bond, Spectator, 2:287-90 (No. 201, 20 October 1711)
46. This is a theme in J. G. A. Pocock's essay in this volume
47. The Second Advice to the Painter (London, 1679)
48. and A Letter to the Earl of Shaftesbury (London, 1680), 1
49. Many of the main points made by Addison in Spectator No. 201 are echoed in Hume's essay "Of Superstition and Enthusiasm"; see David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. Eugene F. Miller (Indianapolis, 1985), 73-79
50. Shaftesbury Papers, Public Record Office, London, 30/24/27/10, 67
51. See Heyd, Critique of Enthusiasm, 211-40
52. and Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness, 165-69
53. On the herding of religious enthusiasts, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 19, 7 June 1681
54. Plus Ultra or the Second Part of the Character of a Quaker (London, 1672), 2
55. Hickes, Spirit of Enthusiasm Exorcised, 7
56. Roger L'Estrange, A Memento: Directed to All that Truly Reverence the Memory of King Charles the Martyr (London, 1662), 86
57. Henry Wharton, The Enthusiasm of the Church of Rome Demonstrated (London, 1688), sigs. A3v-A4r
58. See Nigel Smith, Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (New Haven, Conn., and London, 1994), 218-21
59. Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms, 90, 136
60. Bond, Spectator, 3:200 (No. 327, 15 March 1712)
61. On Dennis, see Harry G. Paul, John Dennis: His Life and Criticism (New York, 1911)
62. and The Critical Works of John Dennis, ed. Edward Niles Hooker (Baltimore, 1939)
63. John Dennis, Miscellanies in Verse and Prose (London, 1693), dedication and preface
64. John Dennis, The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry (London, 1701), dedication
65. Shaftesbury, Characteristics, 2:173 ("Miscellaneous Reflections," II.i)
66. Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms, 107, 136
67. John Wilkins, Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion (London, 1675), sig. A4v
68. Bond, Tatler, 3:81 (No. 203, 27 July 1710)
69. Shaftesbury, Characteristics, 1:9-10 ("Letter Concerning Enthusiasm," ii)