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The Peculiar Life of Sundays / Stephen Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674041035
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 263/.3
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Sunday Gladness, Sunday Gloom -- 2. Sunday in Antiquity -- 3. Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England 55 -- 4. Sunday in Eighteenth-Century England and Scotland -- 5. Varieties of Sunday Observance: Boswell and His Contemporaries -- 6. The Rise and Decline of the Victorian Sunday -- 7. Four American Writers and Sunday: Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- 8. Sunday Nostalgia, Sunday Despair: Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell -- 9. Sunday Now: Sacred and Profane -- Notes -- Index
Summary: From Augustine to Caesarius, through the Reformation and the Puritan flight from England, down through the ages to contemporary debates about Sunday worship, Miller explores the fascinating history of the Sabbath.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674041035

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Sunday Gladness, Sunday Gloom -- 2. Sunday in Antiquity -- 3. Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England 55 -- 4. Sunday in Eighteenth-Century England and Scotland -- 5. Varieties of Sunday Observance: Boswell and His Contemporaries -- 6. The Rise and Decline of the Victorian Sunday -- 7. Four American Writers and Sunday: Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- 8. Sunday Nostalgia, Sunday Despair: Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell -- 9. Sunday Now: Sacred and Profane -- Notes -- Index

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From Augustine to Caesarius, through the Reformation and the Puritan flight from England, down through the ages to contemporary debates about Sunday worship, Miller explores the fascinating history of the Sabbath.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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