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The Hymnal A Reading History

Title
The Hymnal [electronic resource] : A Reading History / Christopher N. Phillips.
ISBN
1421425939
9781421425931
1421425920 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421425924 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 252 pages :) illustrations ;
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Summary
"Christopher N. Phillips' The Hymnbook offers the first extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text, rather than one used solely for singing. His book demonstrates the ways that hymnbooks were used for individual expression and even the forming of corporate identity. He reframes the history of children's literature by placing the bestselling genre of children's hymnbooks at the center and offers new evidence from the Dickinson family's reading and worship practices to show how authors like Emily Dickinson used hymns to make poems. Phillips presents a longer history of devotional reading that informed the rise of hymnbook culture in the early eighteenth century and approaches the hymnbook as a media form nearly as ubiquitous as the almanac, as well as an object that shared its life with its owners and users" -- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Prologue: looking for hymns
Introduction: a reader's hymnbook
Interlude 1: the wide, wide world of hymns
Church
How hymnbooks made a people
How to fight with hymnbooks
Hymnbooks at church
Giving hymnbooks, and what the hymnbook gives
Devotion and the shape of the hymnbook
Interlude 2: Philadelphia, 1844
School
Reading the title clear: hymnbooks and literacy learning
How hymnbooks made children's literature
How hymns remade schoolbooks
Singing as reading; or, a tale of two sacred harps
Interlude 3: henry ward beecher takes note
Home
Did poets write hymns?
How poems entered the hymnbook
The return of the private hymnbook
Emily dickinson's hymnody of privacy
Epilogue: the hymnological decade
Notes
Glossary
Index.
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