Isabel Rivers is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture at Queen Mary University of London. Her main interests are in the relations between literature, religion, philosophy, and the history of the book in the long eighteenth century, and she has published widely on these subjects. She directs the Dissenting Academies Project hosted by the Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English.

Rivers's book will transform how literary scholars, religious historians, and book historians approach eighteenth-century culture. It invites comparison in terms of methods and materials with N. H. Keeble's The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England (1987), a study with a greater sense of the purely literary quality of the writings produced by Dissenters in the wake of the Great Ejection.

• Abbreviations Introduction Part I Books and their Readers 1: Principal Booksellers and Publishing Outlets 2: Religious Societies for Distributing Books 3: Reading Part II Sources 4: The Nonconformist Inheritance 5: The Episcopalian Inheritance 6: Roman Catholic Influences 7: North American Connexions Part III Literary Kinds 8: Interpreting the Bible 9: Practical Works 10: Lives and Letters 11: Poems and Hymns Appendix: Key Writers and Editors Selected Primary Bibliography

Isabel Rivers is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture at Queen Mary University of London. Her main interests are in the relations between literature, religion, philosophy, and the history of the book in the long eighteenth century, and she has published widely on these subjects. She directs the Dissenting Academies Project hosted by the Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English.

Rivers's book will transform how literary scholars, religious historians, and book historians approach eighteenth-century culture. It invites comparison in terms of methods and materials with N. H. Keeble's The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England (1987), a study with a greater sense of the purely literary quality of the writings produced by Dissenters in the wake of the Great Ejection.

• Abbreviations Introduction Part I Books and their Readers 1: Principal Booksellers and Publishing Outlets 2: Religious Societies for Distributing Books 3: Reading Part II Sources 4: The Nonconformist Inheritance 5: The Episcopalian Inheritance 6: Roman Catholic Influences 7: North American Connexions Part III Literary Kinds 8: Interpreting the Bible 9: Practical Works 10: Lives and Letters 11: Poems and Hymns Appendix: Key Writers and Editors Selected Primary Bibliography

Isabel Rivers is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture at Queen Mary University of London. Her main interests are in the relations between literature, religion, philosophy, and the history of the book in the long eighteenth century, and she has published widely on these subjects. She directs the Dissenting Academies Project hosted by the Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English.

Rivers's book will transform how literary scholars, religious historians, and book historians approach eighteenth-century culture. It invites comparison in terms of methods and materials with N. H. Keeble's The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England (1987), a study with a greater sense of the purely literary quality of the writings produced by Dissenters in the wake of the Great Ejection.

• Abbreviations Introduction Part I Books and their Readers 1: Principal Booksellers and Publishing Outlets 2: Religious Societies for Distributing Books 3: Reading Part II Sources 4: The Nonconformist Inheritance 5: The Episcopalian Inheritance 6: Roman Catholic Influences 7: North American Connexions Part III Literary Kinds 8: Interpreting the Bible 9: Practical Works 10: Lives and Letters 11: Poems and Hymns Appendix: Key Writers and Editors Selected Primary Bibliography