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"Perpetual scriptures" in nineteenth-century America : literary, religious, and political quests for textual authority
Title
"Perpetual scriptures" in nineteenth-century America : literary, religious, and political quests for textual authority / Jeff Smith.
ISBN
9781501398957
1501398954
9781501398995
1501398997
9781501398964
9781501398971
9781501398988
Publication
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
viii, 293 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Summary
"Connecting several crucial developments in America's nationally formative period, this book shows how seemingly separate debates and movements in literature, religion, and politics reflect shared anxieties over the problem of textual authority"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Smith, Jeff, 1958 January 25- "Perpetual scriptures" in nineteenth-century America New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : a nation founded on writing
The "world's oldest book" and the crisis of scriptural authority
Revivals, reaction, and the ultra-Protestants
Scriptures as sepulchres : Unitarians and Transcendentalists
Spirit and kingdom : language, social action, and the "true reviving"
American parascriptures : the making of a political canon
Sacred ephemera : literature, news, and Uncle Tom's cabin
Walt Whitman's "New Bible" and the spiritual vitalizing of facts
Slavery, liberty, and the three great charters
Lincoln's miniature Bible : salvation history in the Gettysburg address
Conclusion : the new American Testaments.
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