Wendy Raphael Roberts

Awakening Verse

The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Awakening Verse is the first monograph to address evangelical poetry in the American colonies, shedding light on important dimensions of eighteenth-century religious and literary culture. Roberts deftly assembles a large, previously unknown archive of immensely popular poems, examines how American literary history has rendered this poetic tradition invisible, and demonstrates how a vibrant popular poetics exercised a substantial effect on the landscape of early American religion, literature, and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780197510278
• ISBN-10: 0197510272
• Artikelnr.: 58668181

Autorenporträt

Wendy Raphael Roberts is Assistant Professor of English at The University at Albany, SUNY.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Revival Poetry
Chapter One: "The Sound in Faith":
The Calvinist Couplet and the Poetics of Espousal
Chapter Two: "A Lady in New England":
Forms of the Poet-Minister
Chapter Three: Evangelical Harmony and the Discord of Taste
Chapter Four: The Ethiop's Verse:
The Limits of Poetic Capacity and Espousal Piety
Chapter Five: A Revivalist Ars Poetica for an Itinerant Coterie:
Evangelical Wit, Punctiliar Revision, and Poetic Address
Conclusion: Conversions of Poetic History
Appendix A: Revival Poets and Poetry
Appendix B: Selected Verse