Piety and the politics of anxiety in nonconformist writing of the later Stuart period

Walker, David (2016) Piety and the politics of anxiety in nonconformist writing of the later Stuart period. In: Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World. Chrisatianities in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1500-1800 . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 144-165. ISBN 9781137490971

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Abstract

Writers and their works, it is argued in this study, are often motivated more by political and religious anxiety than medical illness. Psychological and even physical ill health may be symptoms of the political and religious context. The argument posited here draws out the relationship between public life and private feeling in selected works by Richard Baxter and John Bunyan.

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