Matthew Smalley

Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature

The Cultural Work of Literary Preaching from Emerson to Morrison
Herausgeber: Mason, Emma; Knight, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

"Examining how key US writers - from the mid-nineteenth century to the present - have subverted the predominantly religious content of the sermon, this book analyses the complex literary preaching that appears in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison. The author demonstrates how these writers use the sermon to reimagine profound moments of reform in a political, cultural, aesthetic, and predominantly secular mode"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350400252
• ISBN-10: 1350400254
• Artikelnr.: 73246382

Autorenporträt

Matthew Smalley is Associate Professor of English at Fort Hays State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Cultural Work of Literary Preaching: Form, Affordance,
and Resistance
Chapter 1: "There Will Soon Be No More Priests": Surrogate Preachers in
Emerson and Whitman
Chapter 2: "But I Say Unto You": The Literary Pulpit Exchange in Nathaniel
Hawthorne and Rebecca Harding Davis
Chapter 3: Reprising God's Trombones: The Novel Sermons of William Faulkner
and Zora Neale Hurston
Chapter 4: Toni Morrison, the Anxieties of Literary Preaching, and the
Circulated Sermon
Coda: "That's the Pulpit Speaking"
Bibliography
Index