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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... tion . Professors Joan Richardson and Jacqueline Di Salvo of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York provided crucial support at an early stage of this project and made useful suggestions for revision of a first draft of ...
... tion . The attempt to explain how so rhetorically listless a legal and political document as the Constitution , rarely alluded to in the litera- ture itself , can in any way account for such original , often outrageous , literary ...
... tion of absolute consistency between Scripture and the eighteenth- century " bundle of compromises . " 2 In the case , for instance , of the bitterly disputed Roe v . Wade over which some have been willing either to spill blood ...
... tion of an American beginning both possible and desirable . But one might object from the start that it is not the Constitution that gave birth to the United States , but rather the Declaration of In- dependence . Is not that document ...
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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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