Table of Contents

Introduction: Religious Dissent and Textual Culture in the Eighteenth Century
1: Instituting Dissent and the Role of Friendship
2: Dissenting Academy Traditions
3: Lectures in Print
4: Isaac Watts, Educationalist
5: Isaac Watts, Publisher
6: Friendship, Labour, and Editing Posthumous Works
Conclusion: Dissent and the World of Books
Appendix: Biographical Notes
Bibliography

About the Author

Tessa Whitehouse was educated at the universities of Cambridge and London. She is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary University of London and a staff member of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies.

Reviews

Tessa Whitehouse's The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent, 1720-1800 offers a careful and interesting account of the efforts of eighteenth-century nonconformists
*William Cook Miller, William and Mary Quarterly*

This recent work by Tessa Whitehouse is a refreshing contribution to the history of Dissent.
*Simon Lewis, Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture*