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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1. VerfasserIn: Smalley, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: London New York Oxford New Delhi Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2024
In:Jahr: 2024
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:New directions in religion and literature
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B USA / Literatur / Predigt / Säkularisierung / Geschichte 1850-2024
weitere Schlagwörter: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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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physische Details:xi, 215 Seiten
ISBN:1350400009