Awakening Verse
The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism
In 1740, Benjamin Franklin published the first American edition of Gospel Sonnets, by the eminent Scottish Presbyterian minister Ralph Erskine. The work, already in its fifth British edition, quickly became an American bestseller and remained so throughout the eighteenth century. Franklin was aware of what most scholars of American religion and literature have forgotten -that poetry played a central role in the surprising works of God that birthed evangelicalism.The far-reaching social transformations precipitated by the transatlantic evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century depended upon the development of a major literary form, that o…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-751028-5
- EAN: 9780197510285
- Produktnummer: 34171561
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 21'023 KB
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Wendy Raphael Roberts is Assistant Professor of English at The University at Albany, SUNY.
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