| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Oxford studies in American literary history |
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Oxford studies in American literary history.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Series page -- Dedication page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman -- Literature and Pulpit -- Holy Church and the Story of Salvation -- Time and Narrative -- 1. Preaching on the Coronation: The Prologue and the Sermon of Conscience -- 'To counseillen þe Kyng and þe Commune saue' -- Conflicted Voices -- Henry Harclay and the Crown of England -- Conscience and the 'lawe of lif ' -- 2. Preaching on the Half-Acre: Fear, Hope, and Narrative in the Second Vision -- Storm Damage -- Signs of the Times -- Piers Plowman and the Hope of 'Hire' -- Piers the Pardoner -- 3. Preachers and Minstrels: Study's Complaint and the Feast of Conscience -- Curious Preaching -- Tales of Tobit -- Richard Alkerton's Curry Comb -- 'Murye Tales' at the Feast of Conscience -- 4. Preaching on the Lifetime: Sermons and the 'Self-Constant' Subject in Piers Plowman -- Life Lessons -- Fortune's Mirror, Scripture's Sermon -- Ymaginatif and the 'Self-constant' Subject -- Last Things -- 5. Histories of the Self, the World, and the Sermon: Anima and the Tree of Charity -- 'Whider I sholde and wherof I cam': Anima and the Narrated Self -- The Tree of Charity and the Shape of History -- 'Ite in vniuersum mundum et predicate': Christian Evangelism and the Preaching of Mohammed -- Coda: Atonement and Emplotment at the Harrowing of Hell -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? This book traces some of ways that 19th-century Americans used the figure of Napoleon to understand the perameters of tyranny and the perversions it introduced into both their polity and society |
| Notes |
Also issued in print: 2023 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 25, 2023) |
| Subject |
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821. fast |
| Subject |
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Foreign public opinion, American
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Dictatorship.
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dictatorships.
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History of the Americas.
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History.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140186
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191986352 |
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0191986356 |
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9780192899897 |
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0192899899 |
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