Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American LiteratureHarvard University Press, 15/11/2005 - 192 páginas 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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The Constitution and American Literature | 1 |
I The Constitution as a Secular Revelation | 9 |
II An American Literary Renaissance | 55 |
The Literary Art of Uniting States | 156 |
Notes | 165 |
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