American declarations
American declarations: rebellion and repentance in American cultural history Harold K. Bush, Jr
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
ISBN: 0252024281
LCC: PS166
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-217) and index.
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.
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