This piece of history was written at the time of a religious revival, the "Great Awakening", which was marked by waves of conversions that spread from congregation to congregation- conversions so intensely emotional as to amount at times to mass hysteria. ... This movement called for something totally new and outrageous a bold experimentation and a sweeping rejection of all traditional themes and styles. ...

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