American declarations : rebellion and repentance in American cultural history /
Bush, Harold K.(Harold Karl),1956-
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c1999.
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.
BNA
American literature
Christianity and literature
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and history
Puritan movements in literature.
Culture conflict in literature.
Repentance in literature.
Myth in literature.