Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel

By Dawn Coleman

Book Overview

Coleman's book highlights the intersection of two cultural trajectories in America around 1850, both often downplayed in literary histories: a boom in preaching, associated with the growth of evangelicalism and the country's oratorical traditions, and the long struggle of the novel to achieve moral legitimacy and aesthetic autonomy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814254470
• ISBN13: 9780814254479
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"