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Awakening Verse - The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
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Awakening Verse - The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
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In 1740, Benjamin Franklin published the first American edition of
Gospel Sonnets, by the eminent Scottish Presbyterian minister Ralph
Erskine. The work, already in its fifth British edition, quickly
became an American bestseller and remained so throughout the
eighteenth century. Franklin was aware of what most scholars of
American religion and literature have forgotten -that poetry played
a central role in the "surprising works of God" that birthed
evangelicalism. The far-reaching social transformations
precipitated by the transatlantic evangelical revivals of the
eighteenth century depended upon the development of a major
literary form, that of revival poetry. Literary scholars and
historians of religion have prioritized sermons, conversion
narratives, periodicals, and hymnody. Wendy Roberts here argues
that poetry offered a unique capacity to "diffuse celestial Fervor
through the World," in the words of the cleric Samuel Davies.
Awakening Verse is the first monograph to address this large corpus
of 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 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.
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