31 October 2019
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan (2018), ed. Michael Davies and W. R. Owens, to which Anne Dunan-Page, N. H. Keeble, and Isabel Rivers are contributors, was the Winner of the Richard L. Greaves Prize of the International John Bunyan Society, 2019. Isabel Rivers’s Vanity Fair and the Celestial City (2018) received an Honourable Mention.
19 August 2019
QMCRLE is pleased to announce the publication of Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by Michael Davies, Anne Dunan-Page, and Joel Halcomb (Oxford University Press, 2019).
The origins of this volume lie in a one-day conference, 'Church Life: Pastors & their Congregations’, held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 9 November 2013, as part of the Dissenting Experience project.
7 May 2019
New publication on the Online Publications page:
28 January 2019
Isabel Rivers’s book Vanity Fair and the Celestial City: Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England 1720-1800 (Oxford, 2018) is a finalist in the Theology and Religious Studies category of The Association of American Publishers (AAP) 2019 PROSE Awards honoring scholarly works published in 2018.
5 December 2018
New Mary Hays Resource
‘Mary Hays: Life, Writings, and Correspondence’ presents the most complete accounting to date of the life and career of Mary Hays (1759-1843). The website is designed to enable students and scholars to gain open and free access to all pertinent materials related to Hays’s familial and social circles, her writings, and wide correspondence, including some 90 letters by her close friend Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840) appearing for the first time in their entirety. More than 400 letters, fully annotated, are included, along with complete texts of all her periodical writings and all reviews of her own writings, as well as an extensive genealogy of Hays never before seen, the latter owing much to the diary of her long-time friend and relation through marriage, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867). The site has been created, compiled, and maintained by Timothy Whelan, Georgia Southern University, and can be found at http://www.maryhayslifewritingscorrespondence.com.
3 May 2018
There is no conference fee for unwaged or student delegates.
The conference fee for waged delegates is £25.
The cost of the conference dinner is £25.
17 April 2018
4 January 2018
QMCRLE member Isabel Rivers is giving a plenary talk at the Ecclesiastical History Society’s Winter meeting on Saturday 20 January. The theme is Churches and Education.
6 December 2017
The QMCRLE lunchtime seminar programme for the Spring semester and the programme for the Seminar in Religion and Literature are now available. All are welcome at these events!
20 November 2017
The QMCRLE conference ‘Religion and the Life-Cycle 1500-1800’ will take place at QMUL on 6 July 2018
Keynote speakers: Elaine Hobby (Loughborough) and Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College London).
The Call for Papers is available here and proposals are being accepted until 26 January 2018
1 November 2017
Enlightenment and Dissent 31 (2016) is the final issue of the journal. This issue, and the complete archive, will continue to be available via the QMCRLE website
29 September 2017
QMCRLE is pleased to announce new books by three of our members:
Anne Dunan-Page, L’éxperience puritaine
Caroline Bowden (ed.), The Chronicles of Nazareth (The English Convent), Bruges, 1629-1793
Laurence Lux-Sterritt, English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century: Living Spirituality
Congratulations to Anne, Caroline and Laurence!
17 August 2016
Isabel Rivers, Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture in the School of English and Drama, has been elected a Fellow of the Ecclesiastical History Society.
The Society’s aims are to foster interest in, and to advance the study of, all areas of the history of the Christian Churches. The number of Fellows is strictly limited to twenty-five of the world’s leading experts in the field. Professor Rivers has been recognised by the Society for her energetic commitment to eighteenth-century religious history throughout her career.
1 July 2016
An Inventory of Puritan and Dissenting Records, 1640–1714, by Mark Burden, Michael Davies, Anne Dunan-Page and Joel Halcomb (2016) is now available via the publications page of the QMCRLE website.
25 April 2016
On Satuday 23 April, the inaugural research workshop of QMCRLE was held at Queen Mary with papers from Anthony Bale, Laurence Lux-Sterritt, Douglas Hedley and Neil Keeble, and a roundtable with contributions from Emma Mason, Anne Page, David Colclough and James Kelly. Click here for the programme.
23 March 2016
QMCRLE is delighted to announce a partnership with LERMA (La Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone), a research centre based at Aix-Marseille Université comprising 43 historians, literature specialists and linguists dedicated to the study of the anglophone world. It has a strong tradition in early-modern and religious studies. This new partnership seeks to promote international exchange and the sharing of knowledge and research in the fields of literature and religion in English. The Director of LERMA, Anne Dunan-Page, will be speaking at the QMCRLE research workshop on 23 April.
4 January 2016
The Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English was launched on 4 January 2016, following the closure of the Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies at the end of December 2015. Several of the projects and publications formerly housed on the Dr Williams’s Centre website are now housed here: the Dissenting Academies Project, the Henry Crabb Robinson Project, Enlightenment and Dissent, the Surman Index Online, and online publications. An archive of events held by the Dr Williams’s Centre from 2005 to 2015 is also provided here.
The Centre also provides links to other projects in the field of Religion and Literature that are run by the Centre’s members.
