TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Stephen TI - The Peculiar Life of Sundays SN - 9780674041035 U1 - 263/.3 PY - 2022///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Rest KW - Religious aspects KW - Sabbath KW - Sunday KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041035?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674041035 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674041035/original ER -