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(More customer reviews)Burton provides a cogent and insightful analysis of Wesley's activities as a reader, author, abridger, and publisher of texts, as well as a detailed consideration of the impact that Wesley's textual practices had on his followers. Among other topics, her book lays out more clearly than any to date the influence that Wesley's father Samuel, and his mother Suzanna had on his development as a reader; the role that his textual practices played in bringing about his conversion; the spiritual and rhetorical uses he made of his diaries and published journals; and the ways he went about encouraging his followers, including women and lay preachers, to read, speak, and write about their own spiritual journeys. Burton also provides a detailed accounting of Wesley's 254,512 volume book inventory at the time of his death in 1791. Burton's book will be useful, not only to those interested in Wesley, but also in reading and writing practices in Britain more generally throughout the long eighteenth century.
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