Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 2005年11月15日 - 192 頁 The United States Constitution, battleground of a politically bifurcated nation, and sponsor of that nation's now threatened cultural unity, is a quintessentially political document. Americans' representatives swear loyalty to it, and her soldiers die for it. Yet no one has ever seriously considered the formative influence this document, so central a force for all Americans, has had on American cultural life. Now, in this ambitious book, Mitchell Meltzer has for the first time demonstrated the extent to which the Constitution is both source and inspiration for America's greatest literary masterworks. |
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... attempt to explain how so rhetorically listless a legal and political document as the Constitution , rarely alluded to in the litera- ture itself , can in any way account for such original , often outrageous , literary masterpieces as ...
... attempts to answer is not only who shall rule and by what means — the question raised by the victory of the Revolution — but how to begin from a blankness , how to estab- lish a new identity , how to consciously found a civilizational ...
... attempt in two centuries " to describe the place of the Constitution in the public consciousness and symbolic life of the American people . " In- deed , " the most revealing cluster of pertinent source material " —the papers from the ...
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At the Beginning | 11 |
The Path to Union | 23 |
The People Having Spoken Speak | 31 |
Almost a Miracle | 39 |
The Paradox of Secular Revelation | 49 |
Declarations of American Literary Independence | 57 |
Preserving the Revelation | 66 |
Preserving the Paradox | 78 |
The Literary Renaissance of Secular Revelation | 87 |