Author: Chamberlayne, IsraelPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Evil Speaking, Or, A Bridle for the Unbridled Tongue
Author: Chamberlayne, IsraelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Evil Speaking, Or, A Bridle for the Unbridled Tongue
Author: Chamberlayne, IsraelA discourse on the government of the tongue
Author: Charles AtmoreThe Oracle and the Curse
Author: Caleb SmithPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674075862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown’s shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War. In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the role of law’s living oracles, but offenders were also given an opportunity to address the public. When the accused began to turn the tables on their judges, they did so not through rational arguments but by calling down a divine retribution. Widely circulated in newspapers and pamphlets, these curses appeared to channel an otherworldly power, condemning an unjust legal system and summoning readers to the side of righteousness. Exploring the modes of address that communicated the authority of law and the dictates of conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion, Caleb Smith offers a new poetics of justice which assesses the nonrational influence that these printed confessions, trial reports, and martyr narratives exerted on their first audiences. Smith shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
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Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1972
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review
Author: Annual Report of the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. Sunday School UnionPublisher:
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Category : Sunday schools
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The Methodist Quarterly Review
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Minnesota Historical Society
Author: Minnesota Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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