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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... identity , how to consciously found a civilizational life without an inhibiting arbitrariness . In the ordinary ... identities , whether or not the memory bears any relation to his- tory / The Russians , the French , and the Chinese are ...
... identity . But of course for all its eloquence , the document did not in itself accomplish the colonies ' independence — that required nine long years of war's bloodshed and cruelty . Nor did the independence that came from the 1783 ...
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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 |