The peculiar life of Sundays
By: Stephen Miller.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780674031685
Subjects: Sunday; Sabbath; Rest -- Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom; title: Sunday in antiquity; title: Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England; title: Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland; title: Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries; title: The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday; title: Four American writers and Sunday : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman; title: Sunday nostalgia, Sunday despair : Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell; title: Sunday now : sacred and profane.