Wesley and the Wesleyans - Kent, John (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-225) and index
The Protestant recovery -- Early Wesleyanism, 1740-1770 -- Later Wesleyanism, 1770-1800 -- Women in Wesleyanism -- Anglican responses
This book shows how the search for personal supernatural power lay at the heart of the so-called eighteenth-century English evangelical revival, and rejects the view that the Wesleys rescued the British from moral and spiritual decay by reviving primitive Christianity