A New History of the Sermon ─ The Nineteenth Century

The latest installment in Brill's A New History of the Sermon series offers innovative studies of sacred rhetoric in the nineteenth century. The three sections - Theory and Theology, Sermon and Society in the British Empire, and Sermon and Society in America - contain a total of sixteen essays on such topics as biblical criticism, Charles Darwin, the Oxford Movement, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), English Catholicism, sermon novels, and the slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic. Multiple traditions are represented, including the Anglican and Presbyterian churches, English nonconformity, Judaism, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, making this a compilation that will appeal to a wide range of preachers, historians, literary scholars, and students of the rhetorical tradition.

Robert H. Ellison, Ph.D. (1995) in English, University of North Texas, is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Marshall University. He has published on the Oxford Movement and is working on a study of the Victorian "lay sermon."