American declarations : rebellion and repentance in American cultural history / Harold K. Bush, Jr.

Author/creator Bush, Harold K.
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
American literature--History and criticism.
Christianity and literature--United States. --History.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and history--United States. --History.
Puritan movements in literature.
Culture conflict in literature.
Repentance in literature.
Myth in literature.
United States--Civilization.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [187]-217) and index.
LCCN 98009009
ISBN0252024281
ISBN0252067355 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS166 .B87 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold