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The peculiar life of Sundays / Stephen Miller.
LIBRA BL595.S9 M55 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Stephen, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sunday.
- Sabbath.
- Rest--Religious aspects.
- Rest.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom
- Sunday in antiquity
- Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
- Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland
- Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries
- The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday
- Four American writers and Sunday : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman
- Sunday nostalgia, Sunday despair : Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell
- Sunday now : sacred and profane.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-298) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674031685
- 0674031687
- OCLC:
- 225874299
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