The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken and Written sermons in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Table of Contents and Ordering Information

Professor Robert H. Ellison, East Texas Baptist University

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Classical Rhetoric and Nineteenth-Century Prose in Victorian Homiletic Theory

2. "To Read is Human, To Extemporise Divine": Manuscript Versus Extemporaneous Preaching in Victorian Britain

3. "A Nation of 'sermon Tasters'": Preaching and sermon Publishing in Victorian Britain

4. "He Was Never a Drawing-Room Preacher": The Orality-Dominant sermons of Charles Haddon Spurgeon

5. "They Read Well and . . . He Preaches Them Well": The Oratorical and Literary Qualities of John Henry Newman's Anglican sermons

6. From the Pulpit to the Press: George MacDonald's Spoken and Unspoken sermons

7. Orality-Literacy Contrasts in Representative sermons by Spurgeon, Newman, and MacDonald

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Ordering Information

The Victorian Pulpit will be published in 1998 by Susquehanna University Press. Price and ordering information will be posted as it becomes available.

Adaptations available on The Victorian Web

• Introduction and Abstract
• Theories of Preaching
• Methods of Delivery
• Well-Known Preachers
• sermon Publishing and Reviewing
• The "Efficiency" of Victorian Preaching
• Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• John Henry Newman
• George MacDonald
• Bibliography

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