The hymnal: a reading history
"Christopher N. Phillips' The Hymnbook offers the first extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text, rather than one used solely for singing. His book demonstrates the ways that hymnbooks were used for individual expression and even the forming of corporate identity. He refram...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press
[2018]
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
English language area
/ Hymnal
/ History
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| IxTheo Classification: | RC Liturgy RD Hymnology |
| Further subjects: | B
Hymns, English
History and criticism 19th century
B Hymns, English History and criticism 18th century |
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Table of Contents Table of Contents Blurb |
| Summary: | "Christopher N. Phillips' The Hymnbook offers the first extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text, rather than one used solely for singing. His book demonstrates the ways that hymnbooks were used for individual expression and even the forming of corporate identity. He reframes the history of children's literature by placing the bestselling genre of children's hymnbooks at the center and offers new evidence from the Dickinson family's reading and worship practices to show how authors like Emily Dickinson used hymns to make poems. Phillips presents a longer history of devotional reading that informed the rise of hymnbook culture in the early eighteenth century and approaches the hymnbook as a media form nearly as ubiquitous as the almanac, as well as an object that shared its life with its owners and users" ..." |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1421425920 |