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As its startling and aggressive title suggests, Dickens Novels as
Verse is no standard work of literary criticism. It is, in fact,
altogether new and original. Jordan likens the experience of some
of the great Dickens novels, particularly the later ones (namely, A
Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend) to
the experience of lyric verse. The point is not that Dickens novels
could ever be mistaken for lyric poems, but that the experience of
some of the best of Dickens's novels, despite their undoubted
sprawl, is like the experience of lyric poems-is so because the
novels are made up of the same things that make great verse great:
intricate, largely unnoticeable tissues of alliteration-like
patterning that net across the work and give narratively
insignificant coherence to it. Dickens Novels as Verse meticulously
describes these book-length patterns in clear, lucid prose. Its
three chapters, each focused on a single Dickens novel, are full of
close analyses that can be immediately used by teachers, students,
and all other readers of Dickens to grasp why Dickens always seems
to be a greater writer than the quality of his ideas might lead us
to expect.
This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed
as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore
racial differences during an era of American empire building
(1750-1900). Discussions of religious liberty in America during
this time often revolved around the fitness of certain ethnic or
racial groups to properly exercise their freedom of conscience.
Significant fear existed that groups outside the Anglo-Protestant
mainstream might somehow undermine the American experiment in
ordered republican liberty. Hence, repeated calls could be heard
for varying forms of assimilation to normative Protestant ideals
about religious expression. Though Americans pride themselves on
their secular society, it is worth interrogating the exclusive and
even violent genealogy of such secular values. When doing so, it is
important to understand the racial limitations of the discourse of
religious freedom for various aspects of American political
culture. The following account of the history of religious liberty
seeks to destabilize the widespread assumption that the dominant
American culture inevitably trends toward greater freedom in the
realm of personal expression.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
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