The peculiar life of Sundays
Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom -- Sunday in antiquity -- Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland -- Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries -- The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday -- Four American writers and Sund...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
Harvard University Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Reviews: | The peculiar life of Sundays. By Stephen Miller. Pp. ix+309. Cambridge, MA–London: Harvard University Press, 2008. £20.95. 978 0 674 03168 5 (2010) (Hutton, Ronald)
The Peculiar Life of Sundays by Stephen Miller (review) (2010) (Graber, Samuel) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sunday
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Sunday
B Sabbath B Rest Religious aspects |
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| Summary: | Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom -- Sunday in antiquity -- Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland -- Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries -- The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday -- Four American writers and Sunday : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- Sunday nostalgia, Sunday despair : Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell -- Sunday now : sacred and profane |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index |
| ISBN: | 0674031687 |