Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-565) and index.

Preliminary Material / R. Ellison -- Introduction / Robert H. Ellison -- The Tractarians’ Sermons And Other Speeches / Robert H. Ellison -- Richard Whately And The Didactic Sermon / Carol Poster -- The Rhetoric Of Henry Ward Beecher And Frederic W. Farrar Regarding Biblical Criticism / Thomas H. Olbricht -- Missions, Slavery, And The Anglican Pulpit, 1780–1850 / Bob Tennant -- British Sermons On National Events / John Wolffe -- Catholic Preaching In Victorian England, 1801–1901 / Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen -- Anti-Catholic Sermons In Victorian Britain / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein -- Nineteenth-Century British Sermons On Evolution And The Origin Of Species: The Dog That Didn’T Bark? / Keith A. Francis -- The Victorian Sermon Novel: Domesticated Spirituality And The Sermon’s Sensationalization / Tamara S. Wagner -- The Anti-Dueling Movement / Thomas J. Carmody -- The Itinerant Pulpit Of The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (Wctu): Teachers Or Preachers? / Dorothy Lander -- Midway Between Slavery And Citizenship: Black Freedmen In White Protestant Sermons In The Immediate Post-Civil War Period / David M. Timmerman -- Sacred Rhetoric And The African-American Civic Sermon / Joseph Evans -- The Modern Renewal Of Jewish Homiletics And The Occurrence Of Interfaith Preaching / Mirela Saim -- “As A Musician Would His Violin”: The Oratory Of The Great Basin Prophets / Brian Jackson -- The Antebellum American Sermon As Lived Religion / Dawn Coleman -- Bibliography / R. Ellison -- Index / R. Ellison.

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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. Contributors are Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, Thomas J. Carmody, Dawn Coleman, Robert H. Ellison, Joseph Evans, Keith A. Francis, Brian Jackson, Dorothy Lander, Thomas H. Olbricht, Carol Poster, Mirela Saim, Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Bob Tennant, David M. Timmerman, Tamara S. Wagner, and John Wolffe.