Resistance and the sermon in American literature : the cultural work of literary preaching from Emerson to Morrison /

"Examining how key US writers - from the mid-nineteenth century to the present - have subverted the predominantly religious content of the sermon, this book analyses the complex literary preaching that appears in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Hardi...

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Main Author: Smalley, Matthew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Series:New directions in religion and literature.
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