"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"--
"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"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Introduction: A Nation Founded on Writing Part One: The Quest for New Prophets 1. The "World's Oldest Book" and the Crisis of Scriptural Authority 2. Revivals, Reaction, and the Ultra-Protestants 3. Scriptures as Sepulchres: Unitarians and Transcendentalists 4. Spirit and Kingdom: Language, Social Action, and the "True Reviving" Part Two: The Quest for New Scriptures 5. American Parascriptures: The Making of a National Political Canon 6. Sacred Ephemera: News, Literature, and Uncle Tom's Cabin 7. Walt Whitman's "New Bible" and the Spiritual Vitalizing of Facts Part Three: The Quest for National Salvation 8. Slavery, Liberty, and the Three Great Charters 9. Lincoln's Miniature Bible: Salvation History in the Gettysburg Address Conclusion: The New American Testaments Notes Bibliography Index
Introduction: A Nation Founded on Writing Part One: The Quest for New Prophets 1. The "World's Oldest Book" and the Crisis of Scriptural Authority 2. Revivals, Reaction, and the Ultra-Protestants 3. Scriptures as Sepulchres: Unitarians and Transcendentalists 4. Spirit and Kingdom: Language, Social Action, and the "True Reviving" Part Two: The Quest for New Scriptures 5. American Parascriptures: The Making of a National Political Canon 6. Sacred Ephemera: News, Literature, and Uncle Tom's Cabin 7. Walt Whitman's "New Bible" and the Spiritual Vitalizing of Facts Part Three: The Quest for National Salvation 8. Slavery, Liberty, and the Three Great Charters 9. Lincoln's Miniature Bible: Salvation History in the Gettysburg Address Conclusion: The New American Testaments Notes Bibliography Index
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