Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 15/11/2005 - 192 páginas The United States Constitution, battleground of a politically bifurcated nation, and sponsor of that nation's now threatened cultural unity, is a quintessentially political document. Americans' representatives swear loyalty to it, and her soldiers die for it. Yet no one has ever seriously considered the formative influence this document, so central a force for all Americans, has had on American cultural life. Now, in this ambitious book, Mitchell Meltzer has for the first time demonstrated the extent to which the Constitution is both source and inspiration for America's greatest literary masterworks. |
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... American literature / Mitchell Meltzer . p . cm . Includes index . ISBN 0-674-01912-1 ( alk . paper ) 1. American literature - 19th century - History and criticism . 2. Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 19th century ...
The Constitution of the United States and Classic American Literature Mitchell Meltzer. INTRODUCTION The Constitution and American Literature We have it in our power to begin the world over again . A situation similar to the present ...
The Constitution of the United States and Classic American Literature Mitchell Meltzer. sulted in what this book calls a secular revelation . The idea is self- contradictory , for the secular can be defined as precisely that which is not ...
... national origin . It was , as they called it , the New World . America's founding racist violence- the extirpation of the native population and the enslavement of Introduction : The Constitution and American Literature 3.
The Constitution of the United States and Classic American Literature Mitchell Meltzer. the extirpation of the native population and the enslavement of Afri- cans thus occurred in the unforgiving light of history . But it is just this ...
Índice
At the Beginning | 11 |
The Path to Union | 23 |
The People Having Spoken Speak | 31 |
Almost a Miracle | 39 |
The Paradox of Secular Revelation | 49 |
Declarations of American Literary Independence | 57 |
Preserving the Revelation | 66 |
Preserving the Paradox | 78 |
Essays in Time | 97 |
A Poetic Form for Straying | 111 |
Clinging to Narrative | 125 |
Confidence and the Darkness of Revelation | 144 |
The Literary Art of Uniting States | 156 |
Notes | 165 |
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The Literary Renaissance of Secular Revelation | 87 |
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