Brett C Mcinelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 4863722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brett C Mcinelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brett C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcinelly |
| SIGNATURE | MCINELLY B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2876-0549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Methodist Opera? The Troublers of Israel (1767) as Response to the Anti‐Methodist Critique
This essay examines the The Troublers of Israel in the context of Methodism's uneasy, and seemingly contradictory, relationship with the theatre and argues that its anonymous author purposefully adapted the operatic form to achieve his rhetorical, and religious, aims. Even though this tactic has confused bibliographers who have miscategorized the piece as an anti‐Methodist work since the nineteenth century, the operatic form, like George Whitefie…
Outside Looking In
My introduction to anti-Methodism in the eighteenth century came over twenty years ago while reading Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker (1771). At the time, I knew nothing about the Methodist revival or why Smollett seemed so intent on ridiculing the revival's adherents. I quickly discovered that Smollett was one of many writers who targeted the Methodists in what turned out to be a substantial body of anti-Methodist publications produced during t…
A New World, a New Approach to Answering His Critics
George Whitefield intentionally stirred up controversy to generate publicity. During his first American preaching tour, he accomplished this by claiming that the New England clergy were in a defunct spiritual state. When he returned in 1744, he encountered the most organized onslaught of criticism he had or would ever face. But even more curious is the rapidity with which Whitefield's American critics stayed their pens after 1745, which can large…
Writing the Revival
The Methodist revival attracted as much negative press as it did converts during the 18th century – in religious polemic, satiric verse, prose fiction, and dramatic script; the Methodists themselves likewise produced a rich body of spiritual autobiography and sacred verse, mostly in the form of the Methodist hymnal. This essay offers a survey of the scholarship that addresses the textual culture surrounding the revival, including critical assessm…
Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism
This book argues that the eighteenth-century Methodist revival participated in and was produced by a rich textual culture that includes both pro- and anti-Methodist texts; and that Methodism be understood and approached as a rhetorical problem—as a point of contestation and debate resolved through discourse. Methodist belief and practice attracted its share of negative press, and Methodists eagerly (and publically) responded to their critics; and…
Raising the Roof
This paper explores some of the ways hymns informed the Methodist revival. I argue that the hymns can be better understood as the site of a complex negotiation between John and Charles Wesley and their followers, as the brothers attempted to steer the movement away from charges of religious enthusiasm. The emotional power the hymns unleashed required various kinds of constraint so that hymn singing fed the intense feelings of conversion in contro…
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Raising the Roof
This paper explores some of the ways hymns informed the Methodist revival. I argue that the hymns can be better understood as the site of a complex negotiation between John and Charles Wesley and their followers, as the brothers attempted to steer the movement away from charges of religious enthusiasm. The emotional power the hymns unleashed required various kinds of constraint so that hymn singing fed the intense feelings of conversion in contro…
Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism
This book argues that the eighteenth-century Methodist revival participated in and was produced by a rich textual culture that includes both pro- and anti-Methodist texts; and that Methodism be understood and approached as a rhetorical problem—as a point of contestation and debate resolved through discourse. Methodist belief and practice attracted its share of negative press, and Methodists eagerly (and publically) responded to their critics; and…
Writing the Revival
The Methodist revival attracted as much negative press as it did converts during the 18th century – in religious polemic, satiric verse, prose fiction, and dramatic script; the Methodists themselves likewise produced a rich body of spiritual autobiography and sacred verse, mostly in the form of the Methodist hymnal. This essay offers a survey of the scholarship that addresses the textual culture surrounding the revival, including critical assessm…
A New World, a New Approach to Answering His Critics
George Whitefield intentionally stirred up controversy to generate publicity. During his first American preaching tour, he accomplished this by claiming that the New England clergy were in a defunct spiritual state. When he returned in 1744, he encountered the most organized onslaught of criticism he had or would ever face. But even more curious is the rapidity with which Whitefield's American critics stayed their pens after 1745, which can large…
Outside Looking In
My introduction to anti-Methodism in the eighteenth century came over twenty years ago while reading Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker (1771). At the time, I knew nothing about the Methodist revival or why Smollett seemed so intent on ridiculing the revival's adherents. I quickly discovered that Smollett was one of many writers who targeted the Methodists in what turned out to be a substantial body of anti-Methodist publications produced during t…
A Methodist Opera? The Troublers of Israel (1767) as Response to the Anti‐Methodist Critique
This essay examines the The Troublers of Israel in the context of Methodism's uneasy, and seemingly contradictory, relationship with the theatre and argues that its anonymous author purposefully adapted the operatic form to achieve his rhetorical, and religious, aims. Even though this tactic has confused bibliographers who have miscategorized the piece as an anti‐Methodist work since the nineteenth century, the operatic form, like George Whitefie…
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