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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... century is felt by Americans to emanate so profound an aura that the world's most powerful , and arguably one of its most aggressive and skeptical , nation - states continues to submit to the Constitution as the ultimate source of its ...
... 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 Centennial ...
... century would call the shock of the new . So it seemed to their contem- poraries , and so it has seemed since . Distinctive does not , of course , mean utterly different . Differences and similarities are matters of degree only ; but it ...
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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 |