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  1. Herman Melville's ship of state
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  St. Augustine's Press, South Bend, Indiana

    "Will Morrisey unravels Melville's "loomings" of the great whale, showing them to be important threads of politics and theories of governance ... Melville, like Ishmael, urges a new vision of both God and nature, and challenges the notion of rule in... mehr

    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "Will Morrisey unravels Melville's "loomings" of the great whale, showing them to be important threads of politics and theories of governance ... Melville, like Ishmael, urges a new vision of both God and nature, and challenges the notion of rule in all its expressions." -- back cover

     

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  2. 'Perpetual scriptures' in nineteenth century America
    literary, religious, and political quests for textual authority
    Autor*in: Smith, Jeff
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York ; London

    "In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change before the Civil War, Americans confronted a cluster of overlapping crises whose common theme was the difficulty of finding authority in written texts. Putting religious and literary studies in... mehr

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change before the Civil War, Americans confronted a cluster of overlapping crises whose common theme was the difficulty of finding authority in written texts. Putting religious and literary studies in conversation, Jeff Smith presents key features of the writings, careers, and cultural politics of several prominent figures as responses to these 19th-century textual challenges. "Perpetual Scriptures" in Nineteenth-Century America explores several disruptive developments arrayed around the issue of textual authority: rising challenges to the traditional authority of the Bible; persistent worries over America's lack of a "national literature" and an independent national cultural identity; clashing interpretations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as they gradually became a kind of quasi-sacred secular canon; and, from the opposite direction, the rapid emergence of a new print culture that put a premium on mass-produced text that was immediate and urgent, but often unreliable. In so doing, Smith analyzes varied attempts to vindicate the sacred and merge the timeless with the immediate by religious and political leaders such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln. These men and women of letters helped define American literary culture as an ongoing quest for what Emerson called "a perpetual scripture," or new modes of written expression with high authority like the Bible's, but rooted in the real, ongoing experience of the nation and its people. This study ties together various movements and projects to show what was distinctively American about them and what they reveal about the inherent problems and limits of textual authority."

     

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