Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature
The Cultural Work of Literary Preaching from Emerson to Morrison
Examining the longstanding tradition of “literary preaching”, this book provides a wide-ranging and provocative analysis of American literature’s obsessive, contradictory, and enduring engagement with the protestant sermon. Providing a nuanced exploration of the attractive and repulsive affordances of literary preaching, this book explores why it endures in American literature. Smalley demonstrates how key US writers – from the mid-19th century to the present – have subverted the predominantly religious content of the sermon in order to reimagine profound moments in US history in a political, cultural, aesthetic, and predominantly secular mode. Analysing 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, this book provides new insights into the cultural politics of these authors’ anxious engagements with the sermon.
Examining the longstanding tradition of "literary preaching", this book provides a wide-ranging and provocative analysis of American literature's obsessive, contradictory, and enduring engagement with the protestant sermon. Providing a nuanced exploration of the attractive and repulsive affordances of literary preaching, this book explores why it endures in American literature. Smalley demonstrates how key US writers - from the mid-19th century to the present - have subverted the predominantly religious content of the sermon in order to reimagine profound moments in US history in a political, cultural, aesthetic, and predominantly secular mode. Analysing 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, this book provides new insights into the cultural politics of these authors' anxious engagements with the sermon.
| Autor: | Smalley Matthew |
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| ISBN: | 9781350400009 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Veröffentlicht: | 27.06.2024 |
| Untertitel: | The Cultural Work of Literary Preaching from Emerson to Morrison |
| Schlagworte: | English LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: from c 1900 - USA United States of America, USA |
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