The Peculiar Life of Sundays / / Stephen Miller.
From Augustine to Caesarius, through the Reformation and the Puritan flight from England, down through the ages to contemporary debates about Sunday worship, Miller explores the fascinating history of the Sabbath.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Sunday Gladness, Sunday Gloom -- 2. Sunday in Antiquity -- 3. Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England 55 -- 4. Sunday in Eighteenth-Century England and Scotland -- 5. Varieties of Sunday Observance: Boswell and His Contemporaries -- 6. The Rise and Decline of the Victorian Sunday -- 7. Four American Writers and Sunday: Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- 8. Sunday Nostalgia, Sunday Despair: Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell -- 9. Sunday Now: Sacred and Profane -- Notes -- Index |
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| Summary: | From Augustine to Caesarius, through the Reformation and the Puritan flight from England, down through the ages to contemporary debates about Sunday worship, Miller explores the fascinating history of the Sabbath. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780674041035 9783110756067 9783110442205 |
| DOI: | 10.4159/9780674041035?locatt=mode:legacy |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Stephen Miller. |