The peculiar life of Sundays / Stephen Miller.

Author/creator Miller, Stephen, 1941-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,
Description310 p. ; 22 cm.
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Subjects
Sunday.
Sabbath.
Rest--Religious aspects.

Contents Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom -- Sunday in antiquity -- Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland -- Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries -- The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday -- Four American writers and Sunday : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- Sunday nostalgia, Sunday despair : Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell -- Sunday now : sacred and profane.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index.
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LCCN 2008027460
ISBN9780674031685 (alk. paper)
ISBN0674031687 (alk. paper)