This book has been eagerly awaited, and it does not disappoint. Many readers will be familiar with Isabel Rivers's earlier work, Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660–1780, Volume I: Whichcote to Wesley (1991). Since then, the author has made major contributions to the field through the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, the Dissenting Academies project, and the Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English. Her new volume is the product of prodigious research and meticulous scholarship, and is one of those rare monographs that is encyclopedic in scope and design. The sheer density of reference requires the reader to wade through many lists, but the detail is engrossing. The book is an invaluable companion to eighteenth-century English religion and print culture. It deserves a place alongside major reference works on the scholar's desk—a book to be kept...

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