An edition of AMERICAN DECLARATIONS
(1998)
American declarations
rebellion and repentance in American cultural history
by Harold K. Bush
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History, Repentance in literature, Literature and history, National characteristics, American, in literature, Myth in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Christianity and literature, Puritan movements in literature, Civilization, Culture conflict in literature, Politik <Motiv>, Nationalismus <Motiv>, Nationalcharakter <Motiv>, Literatur, Amerikabild, Nationalcharakter, Puritanismus, American literature, history and criticism, National characteristics in literature, United states, civilization, Mythology in literaturePlaces
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-217) and index.
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"In the early decades of the nineteenth century, largely in an attempt to establish a historical basis for the development of a national consensus, political and cultural spokespersons frequently envisioned the Puritans as mythic forbears of the American nation."
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