Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-320) and index
The rejection of liturgy, the rise of free prayer, and modern religious subjectivity -- "As blood is forced out of flesh" : spontaneity and the wounds of exchange in Grace abounding and The pilgrim's progress -- "True enthusiasm" : moral sense philosophy and fissures of the secular self in Shaftesbury's private writings -- At the Sign of the Bible and Sun : John Newbery, The vicar of Wakefield, and the ghost of Christopher Smart -- Wordsworth's "spontaneous overflow" and the "high service within" : from Lyrical ballads to Ecclesiastical sonnets
