Awakening Verse : the poetics of early American evangelicalism /

Awakening Verse is the first monograph to address evangelical poetry in the American colonies, shedding light on important dimensions of eighteenth-century religious and literary culture. Roberts deftly assembles a large, previously unknown archive of immensely popular poems, examines how American l...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Roberts, Wendy Raphael
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Zusammenfassung:
Awakening Verse is the first monograph to address evangelical poetry in the American colonies, shedding light on important dimensions of eighteenth-century religious and literary culture. Roberts deftly assembles a large, previously unknown archive of immensely popular poems, examines how American literary history has rendered this poetic tradition invisible, and demonstrates how a vibrant popular poetics exercised a substantial effect on the landscape of early American religion, literature, and culture.
Umfang:
1 online resource (321 pages)
ISBN:
0-19-751030-2
0-19-751028-0
Schlagworte:
Religion in literature.
Evangelicalism in literature.
Religious poetry, American.
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