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Awakening Verse
- The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism
Engelsk Hardback
Awakening Verse
- The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism
Engelsk Hardback

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In 1740, Benjamin Franklin published the first American edition of Gospel Sonnets, by the eminent Scottish Presbyterian minister Ralph Erskine. The work, already in its fifth British edition, quickly became an American bestseller and remained so throughout the eighteenth century. Franklin was aware of what most scholars of American religion and literature have forgotten -that poetry played a central role in the "surprising works of God" that birthed evangelicalism. The far-reaching social transformations precipitated by the transatlantic evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century depended upon the development of a major literary form, that of revival poetry. Literary scholars and historians of religion have prioritized sermons, conversion narratives, periodicals, and hymnody. Wendy Roberts here argues that poetry offered a unique capacity to "diffuse celestial Fervor through the World," in the words of the cleric Samuel Davies. Awakening Verse is the first monograph to address this large corpus of 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 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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780197510278
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0197510272
Udg. Dato:
3 sep 2020
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
239mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
3 sep 2020
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