Richard E Brantley

Biographic Data

ID5703356
NAMERichard E Brantley
GIVEN NAMESRichard E
FAMILY NAMEBrantley
SIGNATUREBRANTLEY R E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Florida
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX2

  • Experience and Faith

    Open AccessRichard E Brantley, R BrantleyBOOKExperience and Faith2004

  • Experimental Trust

    Open AccessRichard E BrantleyCHAPTERExperience and Faith2004

    "We'll finish an education sometime, won't we?" asked Emily Dickinson of her friend Abiah Root on February 23, 1845, adding, "You may then be Plato, and I will be Socrates, provided you won't be wiser than I am" (L 1:10). Thus, at fourteen, the schoolgirl showed herself to be philosophically precocious, by recognizing the distinction between Plato and the chief persona of his dialogues and by anticipating her own role as gadfly On October 10, 185…

  • Coordinates of Anglo-American Romanticism

    Norman Pettit, Richard E BrantleyARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1994

  • Anglo-American Antiphony

    Douglas Robillard, Richard E BrantleyARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1994Cited by: 2

  • Coordinates of Anglo-American Romanticism

    Len Gougeon, Richard E BrantleyARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1994Cited by: 3

    Constructing a transatlantic arc of literature, Brantley explores how John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards provide an empirical as well as evangelical framework for interpreting their spiritual descendants, Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He finds that the four Anglo-American writers share a simultaneously rational and sensationalist reliance on experience as the avenue to knowledge. Wesley (1703-91), founder of British Methodism, and Edwards…

  • Coordinates of Anglo-American Romanticism

    Jon Butler, Richard E BrantleyARTICLEAmerican Literature1993

  • The Evangelist of Desire

    Richard E Brantley, Henry AbeloveARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1991

  • The Common Ground of Wesley and Edwards

    Open AccessRichard E BrantleyARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1990

    Although evangelicalism is “spiritual” and empiricism is “natural,” the great principle of empiricism, that one must see for oneself and be in the presence of the thing one knows, applies as well to evangelical faith. Each of these two methodologies operates along a continuum that joins emotion to intellect; each joins externality to words through “ideas/ideals of sensation,” that is, through either perception or grace-in-perception or both. Whil…

  • Locke, Wesley, and the Method of English Romanticism

    John Greenfield, Richard E Brantley et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1986

  • Locke, Wesley, and the Method of English Romanticism

    Leopold Damrosch, Richard E BrantleyARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1986

  • Locke, Wesley, and the Method of English Romanticism

    Open AccessElisabeth Brocking, Richard E BrantleyARTICLESouth Central Review1985

  • Johnson's Wesleyan Connection

    Richard E BrantleyARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1976

    ON 24 MAY 1738, in Aldersgate Street, London, Wesley's heart was strangely warmed. The Methodist revival soon ensued, continuing well into the nineteenth century and long outliving Wesley, who died in 1791. His conversion, Lecky commented in A History of England in the Eighteenth Century (1883), meant more for Britain than all the victories of Pitt by land and sea, and, though the point could meet with counterpoints (Wesley devalued tradition and…