"Perpetual scriptures" in nineteenth-century America : literary, religious, and political quests for textual authority /
"Connecting several crucial developments in America's nationally formative period, this book shows how seemingly separate debates and movements in literature, religion, and politics reflect shared anxieties over the problem of textual authority"--
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a nation founded on writing
- The "world's oldest book" and the crisis of scriptural authority
- Revivals, reaction, and the ultra-Protestants
- Scriptures as sepulchres : Unitarians and Transcendentalists
- Spirit and kingdom : language, social action, and the "true reviving"
- American parascriptures : the making of a political canon
- Sacred ephemera : literature, news, and Uncle Tom's cabin
- Walt Whitman's "New Bible" and the spiritual vitalizing of facts
- Slavery, liberty, and the three great charters
- Lincoln's miniature Bible : salvation history in the Gettysburg address
- Conclusion : the new American Testaments.