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Perpetual Scriptures in Nineteenth-Century America - Literary, Religious, and Political Quests for Textual Authority (Hardcover)
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Perpetual Scriptures in Nineteenth-Century America - Literary, Religious, and Political Quests for Textual Authority (Hardcover)
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In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change between the
American Founding and the Civil War, Americans confronted a cluster
of overlapping crises whose common theme was the difficulty of
finding authority in written texts. The issue arose from several
disruptive developments: rising challenges to the traditional
authority of the Bible in a society that was intensely Protestant;
persistent worries over America’s lack of a “national
literature” and an independent cultural identity; and the slavery
crisis, which provoked tremendous struggles over clashing
interpretations of the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution, even as these “parascriptures” were rising to the
status of a kind of quasi-sacred secular canon. At the same time
but from the opposite direction, new mass media were creating a
new, industrial-scale print culture that put a premium on very
non-sacred, disposable text: mass-produced “news,” dispensed
immediately and in huge quantities but meant only for the day or
hour. Perpetual Scriptures in Nineteenth-Century America identifies
key features of the writings, careers and cultural politics of
several prominent Americans as responses to this cluster of
challenges. In their varied attempts to vindicate the sacred and to
merge the timeless with the urgent present, Joseph Smith, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, Abraham
Lincoln, and other religious and political leaders and men and
women of letters helped define American literary culture as an
ongoing quest for new “bibles,” or what Emerson called a
“perpetual scripture.”
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