Journal article
Whigs in Heaven: Elizabeth Rowe's Friendship in Death
Abstract
This essay provides an analysis of Elizabeth Singer Rowe's Friendship in Death (1728), proposing that her fictional letters from the dead offer a new, distinctively Whig vision of heaven. Dominant Anglican theology, following Saint Augustine, held that heaven, in its spiritual perfection, is unimaginable for those on earth. Rowe, an Independent whose circle included Isaac Watts, argues just the opposite. Drawing on Milton, Addison, and Watts, …
Authors
Walmsley P
Journal
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 315–330
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date
3 2011
DOI
10.1353/ecs.2011.0008
ISSN
0013-2586