Theology and literature in the age of Johnson: resisting secularism

Introduction / Melvyn New

Novelistic redemption and the history of grace: practical theology and literary form in Richardson's Pamela and Fielding's Joseph Andrews / Donald R. Wehrs

Oxford Methodists (1733; 1738): the purloined letter of John Wesley at Samuel Richardson's press / John A. Dussinger

Henry Fielding straddles a moving theme / Regina Janes

Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and the problem of heaven / E. Derek Taylor

Intellectual background to Johnson's Life of Browne: a study of Johnsonian construction / Robert G. Walker

"But philosophy can tell no more": Johnson's Christian moralism and the genre of Rasselas / Patrick Müller

Johnson's fallen world / Steven Scherwatzky

Aesthetics and theology in Samuel Johnson's Life of Isaac Watts and Prayers and meditations (1785) / Katherine Kickel

Providence, futurity, and typology in Oliver Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield / Nicholas Seager

Divine and human love: letters between John Norris and Mary Astell, Laurence Sterne and Eliza Draper / Geoff Newton

Tristram Shandy and the devil / Ryan J. Stark

Methodists on the move in The spiritual Quixote / Brett C. McInelly

"A very agreable way of thinking": devotion and doctrine in Boswell's religion / Paul Tankard

Bluestockings and religion / Deborah Heller

"Through a glass darkly": Edmund Burke, political theology, and literary allusion / Frans De Bruyn

Bible in the dock: Thomas Erskine, Thomas Paine, and the trial of The age of reason / Roger D. Lund

Novel as the art of secular scripture: Mary Wollstonecraft's feminist gospel / Nathalie Zimpfer.