Brett C. McInelly is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he teaches composition and literature. He has published articles on Defoe and Smollett, among others, as well as articles on the literary reception of Methodism in the eighteenth century. He is also the founding editor of Religion in the Age of Enlightenment (AMS Press). Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism is his first book.

• Introduction ; 1. Print Culture and the Making of Methodism ; 2. Rhetoric and Revival ; 3. Performing the Revival ; 4. Hymn Singing, the Anti-Methodist Response, and the Revival ; 5. Sexualized Spirituality, Sexual Politics, and Early Methodism ; 6. Methodist Infighting and the Revival ; Conclusion

a laudable and well-researched study which enhances our contextual understanding of early Methodism through its careful examination of the way in which Methodists and their critics interacted in print.

Brett C. McInelly is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he teaches composition and literature. He has published articles on Defoe and Smollett, among others, as well as articles on the literary reception of Methodism in the eighteenth century. He is also the founding editor of Religion in the Age of Enlightenment (AMS Press). Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism is his first book.

• Introduction ; 1. Print Culture and the Making of Methodism ; 2. Rhetoric and Revival ; 3. Performing the Revival ; 4. Hymn Singing, the Anti-Methodist Response, and the Revival ; 5. Sexualized Spirituality, Sexual Politics, and Early Methodism ; 6. Methodist Infighting and the Revival ; Conclusion

a laudable and well-researched study which enhances our contextual understanding of early Methodism through its careful examination of the way in which Methodists and their critics interacted in print.

Brett C. McInelly is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he teaches composition and literature. He has published articles on Defoe and Smollett, among others, as well as articles on the literary reception of Methodism in the eighteenth century. He is also the founding editor of Religion in the Age of Enlightenment (AMS Press). Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism is his first book.

• Introduction ; 1. Print Culture and the Making of Methodism ; 2. Rhetoric and Revival ; 3. Performing the Revival ; 4. Hymn Singing, the Anti-Methodist Response, and the Revival ; 5. Sexualized Spirituality, Sexual Politics, and Early Methodism ; 6. Methodist Infighting and the Revival ; Conclusion

a laudable and well-researched study which enhances our contextual understanding of early Methodism through its careful examination of the way in which Methodists and their critics interacted in print.