Abstract
This article focuses on the years between the start of the French Revolution and the beginning of war between Britain and France. I argue that pulpits and printed sermons became a key battleground for important debates about how to interpret the past, present and future of British liberty and the British monarchy. Religion and ideas of liberty were so mutually constitutive that sermons became a focal point for the future of the nation. I discuss a range of related sermons and texts alongside Anna Laetitia Barbauld's Civic Sermons to the People (1792) and Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation (1793).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 257-272 |
| Journal | Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 23 May 2018 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jun 2018 |
Bibliographical note
© 2018 British Society for Eighteenth‐Century Studies. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded with permission of the publisher/copyright holder. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details.Keywords
- Barbauld
- sermons
- dissenters
- Church of England
- nation
- french Revolution
- George III
