Peculiar Life of Sundays

Name: Peculiar Life of Sundays
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ISBN: 9780674031685

ISBN-10: 0674031687

ISBN-13: 9780674031685

Edition: 2008

Authors: Stephen Miller

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Sunday observance in the Christian West was an important religious issue from late Antiquity until at least the early twentieth century. In England the subject was debated in Parliament for six centuries. During the reign of Charles I disagreements about Sunday observance were a factor in the Puritan flight from England. In America the Sunday question loomed large in the nationrsquo;s newspapers. In the nineteenth century, it was the lengthiest of our national debates-outlasting those of temperance and slavery. In a more secular age, many writers have been haunted by the afterlife of Sunday. Wallace Stevens speaks of the ldquo;peculiar life of Sundays.rdquo; For Kris Kristofferson…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056



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



Sunday Nostalgia, Sunday Despair



Sunday Now: Sacred and Profane


Notes


Index