The Bible in American Poetic Culture
Community, Conflict, War
Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics;
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Product details:
- Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Publication 17 October 2024
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031401084
- Binding Paperback
- See also 9783031401053
- No. of pages297 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XII, 297 p. 613
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Long description:
Although the Bible is the foundation of American poetic tradition, there is no study of the Bible as an ongoing force in American poetry. Not only a source of imagery, allusion, rhythm and style, the Bible is central to how poetry has both shaped and been shaped by American civic, political, and social history, including issues of ethnicity, race and gender. Through poetry core issues of the Bible in American culture emerge in a new light. What defines America as a nation? What are its historical, political and religious meanings and direction? Vitally, how is it that the Bible is at once a shared common text, binding community, and yet was throughout American culture also contested, disputed, and politicized as a weapon of war? This study begins with the Puritans, and goes on to examine poetry of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, as well as claims and counterclaims in abolition, slavery, and women’s rights. In doing so it treats both popular and major writers, including Edward Taylor,Frances Harper, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Moore and Gwendoln Brooks, concluding with Amanda Gorman.
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1. The Bible as Public Sphere: Interpretation, Polity, Poetry.- 2. Puritan Hebraism: John Cotton and Edward Taylor.- 3. Covenant and Apocalypse: Revolutionary and Civil Wars.- 4. The Bible Divided Against Itself: Abolition, Slave Spirituals.- 5. Rewriting Scripture: Emerson, Whitman, Melville.- 6. Emily Dickinson’s Biblical Contests: Critique, Gender, War.- 7. Women’s Bibles, White and Black.
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