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17%OFFStephen Miller - The Peculiar Life of Sundays - 9780674031685 - V9780674031685
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The Peculiar Life of Sundays

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Description for The Peculiar Life of Sundays Hardback. A study of the changing role of religion in Western culture. It focuses on the Sunday lives of a number of prominent British and American writers - and what they have had to say about Sunday. It also examines such observant Christians as George Herbert, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Hannah More, and Jonathan Edwards. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 522.

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 nation’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 “peculiar ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674031685
SKU
V9780674031685
Shipping Time
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About Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller is the author of the bestselling book Conversation: A History of a Declining Art.

Reviews for The Peculiar Life of Sundays
This wide-ranging study of the most singular day of the week
as it has played out over the centuries from antiquity to the present
will delight and inform readers. I found it beguiling in every way. Miller writes beautifully, drawing on a wealth of material, shaping his ideas and arguments with nothing short of amazing grace.
Jay Parini, Middlebury College A ... Read more

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