Resistance and the sermon in American literature: the cultural work of literary preaching from Emerson to Morrison

"Examining how key US writers - from the mid-nineteenth century to the present - have subverted the predominantly religious content of the sermon, this book analyses the complex literary preaching that appears in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Hardi...

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Главный автор: Smalley, Matthew (Автор)
Формат: Print
Язык:Английский
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Опубликовано: London New York Oxford New Delhi Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2024
В:Год: 2024
Серии журналов/журналы:New directions in religion and literature
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B USA / Литература (мотив) / Проповедь (мотив) / Секуляризация (мотив) / История (мотив) 1850-2024
Другие ключевые слова:B Religion in literature
B Sermons in literature
B Preaching in literature
B American literature 19th century History and criticism
B American literature 20th century History and criticism
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Итог:"Examining how key US writers - from the mid-nineteenth century to the present - have subverted the predominantly religious content of the sermon, this book analyses the complex literary preaching that appears in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison. The author demonstrates how these writers use the sermon to reimagine profound moments of reform in a political, cultural, aesthetic, and predominantly secular mode"--
Примечание:Includes bibliographical references and index
Объем:xi, 215 Seiten
ISBN:978-1-350-40000-9
978-1-350-40025-2