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The peculiar life of Sundays / Stephen Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Stephen, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sunday.
- Sabbath.
- Rest--Religious aspects.
- Rest.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674041035
- 0674041038
- OCLC:
- 647823661
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