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American declarations : rebellion and repentance in American cultural history
- Title
- American declarations : rebellion and repentance in American cultural history / Harold K. Bush, Jr.
- Author
- Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-2021.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 224 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- American literature > History and criticism
- Myth in literature
- Literature and history > United States > History
- Culture conflict in literature
- United States > Civilization
- Christianity and literature > United States > History
- Puritan movements in literature
- Repentance in literature
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-217) and index.
- Contents
- Re-inventing the Puritans: George Bancroft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the birth of Endicott's ghost -- Revolutionary enactment: Frederick Douglass, the African American metanoia, and the cultural work of the Declaration of Independence -- Holiness and the sanctification gap: Sojourner Truth, African American women, and the cultural work of doing the Word -- Closing the sanctification gap: doing the Word in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Abraham Lincoln as America's revivalist -- The myth of the oppositional West: Mark Twain's declaration of in/dependence at Whittier's seventieth birthday celebration -- Cultural conflict makes the man: Sinclair Lewis as pagan, 100 percent American, and Nobel laureate -- Trilling's Frost versus Kennedy's Frost: competing poles of a paradox within America's regnant myth.
- Call Number
- JFE 99-1853
- ISBN
- 0252024281
- 0252067355 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 98009009
- OCLC
- 38550137
- Author
- Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-2021.
- Title
- American declarations : rebellion and repentance in American cultural history / Harold K. Bush, Jr.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-217) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 99-1853