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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| 格式: | Print 圖書 |
| 語言: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Bloomsbury Academic
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| 叢編: | New directions in religion and literature
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ 文學
/ 講章
/ 世俗化
/ 歷史 1850-2024
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| Further subjects: | 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 |
| 總結: | "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 實物描述: | xi, 215 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-1-350-40000-9 978-1-350-40025-2 |
