Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 2005年11月15日 - 204 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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... Knopf , 1983 ) . These often excellent volumes focus on the Constitution strictly in its legal and political interpretation and are of a piece with the largely political interpre- tation of American literary classics sponsored by the ...
... Knopf , 2001 ) , has com- mented on the persistence of this debate : “ It is truly humbling , perhaps even dispiriting , to realize that the historical debate over the revolutionary era and the early republic merely recapitulates the ...
... Knopf , 1979 ) , p . 399 . 3. Jefferson , complaining to Adams about the request to publish the two friends ' private correspondence wrote , “ These people think they have a right to everything however secret or sacred . ” The passage ...
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Declarations of American Literary Independence | 57 |
Preserving the Revelation | 66 |
Preserving the Paradox | 78 |
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