Bayer G (2024)
Publication Type: Journal article, Original article
Publication year: 2024
Book Volume: 47
Pages Range: 45-58
Journal Issue: 1
Open Access Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1754-0208.12927
This essay discusses the use of epistolarity in a pamphlet controversy that played out over a published sermon by the Bishop of Exeter and a critical response by Benjamin Hoadly. While the political, religious and social aspects of the resulting pamphlet war are substantial, the present article discusses how the form of the letter was employed by the various authors who contributed to this controversy. It argues that the writers drew on readerly expectations about letters that reveal much about the role played by epistolarity for literary culture in Restoration England, in particular on how letters negotiated a contested space between factuality and fictionality that was shaped also by contemporary notions of novelistic writing.
APA:
Bayer, G. (2024). The Bishop of Exeter vs Benjamin Hoadly: Pamphlets, Controversy, and the Uses of Epistolarity in Restoration England. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 47(1), 45-58. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12927
MLA:
Bayer, Gerd. "The Bishop of Exeter vs Benjamin Hoadly: Pamphlets, Controversy, and the Uses of Epistolarity in Restoration England." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 47.1 (2024): 45-58.
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