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Author Miller, Stephen, 1941-

Title The peculiar life of Sundays [electronic resource] / Stephen Miller.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 310 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Sunday.
Sabbath.
Rest -- Religious aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780674031685 (alk. paper)
0674031687 (alk. paper)

 
    
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