Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 15.11.2005 - 192 Seiten The United States Constitution, battleground of a politically bifurcated nation, and sponsor of that nation's now threatened cultural unity, is a quintessentially political document. Americans' representatives swear loyalty to it, and her soldiers die for it. Yet no one has ever seriously considered the formative influence this document, so central a force for all Americans, has had on American cultural life. Now, in this ambitious book, Mitchell Meltzer has for the first time demonstrated the extent to which the Constitution is both source and inspiration for America's greatest literary masterworks. |
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... founding , issuing in the Constitution as a secular revelation . The otherwise familiar narrative of the ... Founders to this quintessentially modern dilemma re- sulted in what this book calls a secular revelation . Introduction: The ...
... founding document exercises a most peculiar kind of status in American life . It is not merely that few , if any , texts of the modern world have begot an interpretive practice denser , more diverse , or methodologically more self ...
... of national origin . It was , as they called it , the New World . America's founding racist violence- the extirpation of the native population and the enslavement of Introduction : The Constitution and American Literature 3.
... founding document must come as some- thing of a puzzling surprise . 7 And yet it seems as if the relative meagerness of comment about the larger cultural force of the Constitution is not , in fact , limited to the realm of literary ...
... Founders , " a name often used to refer strictly to the men who served at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 , is used here more generally to describe the major participants of the movement from Independence through the first few ...
Inhalt
At the Beginning | 11 |
The Path to Union | 23 |
The People Having Spoken Speak | 31 |
Almost a Miracle | 39 |
The Paradox of Secular Revelation | 49 |
Declarations of American Literary Independence | 57 |
Preserving the Revelation | 66 |
Preserving the Paradox | 78 |
Essays in Time | 97 |
A Poetic Form for Straying | 111 |
Clinging to Narrative | 125 |
Confidence and the Darkness of Revelation | 144 |
The Literary Art of Uniting States | 156 |
Notes | 165 |
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The Literary Renaissance of Secular Revelation | 87 |
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