...The influence of the famous Puritan divine Richard Baxter on the Victorian Church has never been documented in detail. This paper redresses this by examining how Baxter was taken up and ‘canonised’ by nineteenth-century Christians from across the doctrinal spectrum. In doing so it focus on two...

... attained canonisation: some remained as blesseds; others failed even to get that far. Even so, the number of persons who felt singled out by God, and achieved official recognition for it, is considerable. But besides this official list, there was another route to acceptance which did not necessarily...

... is drawn to a complex of factors that lifted the jazz avant‐garde from near obscurity in the early years of the decade, to a canonised status by 1965. Prominent amongst these factors was the politically radical discourse promoted by figures associated with the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka...

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... is evident in a range of subsequent works. Over time, it has continued to inspire artistic, atmospheric horror, and its endless recycled references have contributed to both its extraordinary impact on popular culture and its ultimate genre canonisation. Indeed, The Shining has staked its...

... to look with favour in due course on a life history designed to win canonisation for Bernard. That was almost always the purpose of the writing of such a life story at this period. Indeed, it was possible to hire hagiographers who would devise an account for almost anyone according to the accepted canons...