American declarations
Subtitle: rebellion and repentance in American cultural history
By: Harold K. Bush, Jr.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.; Christianity and literature -- United States -- History.; National characteristics, American, in literature.; Literature and history -- United States -- History.; Puritan movements in literature.; Culture conflict in literature.; Repentance in literature.; Myth in literature.; United States -- Civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Re-inventing the Puritans: George Bancroft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the birth of Endicott's ghost; title: Revolutionary enactment: Frederick Douglass, the African American metanoia, and the cultural work of the Declaration of Independence; title: Holiness and the sanctification gap: Sojourner Truth, African American women, and the cultural work of doing the Word; title: Closing the sanctification gap: doing the Word in Uncle Tom's cabin; title: Abraham Lincoln as America's revivalist; title: The myth of the oppositional West: Mark Twain's declaration of in/dependence at Whittier's seventieth birthday celebration; title: Cultural conflict makes the man: Sinclair Lewis as pagan, 100 percent American, and Nobel laureate; title: Trilling's Frost versus Kennedy's Frost: competing poles of a paradox within America's regnant myth.