"Lake Methodism" and the lows of high argument -- "Elocution to the mute" : Anglican authority and the cultural revolt of Methodism -- Wordsworth and the ragged legion : poets, priests, and preachers -- Sage or Sibyl? A lay sermon -- Joanna Southcott's body, and the posthumous life of romantic prophecy -- Resurrection, the new birth, and vital Christianity : the Methodism to Frankenstein's madness.