Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Classical Rhetoric and Nineteenth-Century Prose in Victorian Homiletic Theory
2. "To Read is Human, To Extemporise Divine": Manuscript Versus Extemporaneous Preaching in Victorian Britain
3. "A Nation of 'sermon Tasters'": Preaching and sermon Publishing in Victorian Britain
4. "He Was Never a Drawing-Room Preacher": The Orality-Dominant sermons of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
5. "They Read Well and . . . He Preaches Them Well": The Oratorical and Literary Qualities of John Henry Newman's Anglican sermons
6. From the Pulpit to the Press: George MacDonald's Spoken and Unspoken sermons
7. Orality-Literacy Contrasts in Representative sermons by Spurgeon, Newman, and MacDonald
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Adaptations available on The Victorian Web
- Introduction and Abstract
- Theories of Preaching
- Methods of Delivery
- Well-Known Preachers
- sermon Publishing and Reviewing
- The "Efficiency" of Victorian Preaching
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- John Henry Newman
- George MacDonald
- Bibliography
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