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Book Agnes and the Little Key  Or  Bereaved Parents Instructed and Comforted

Download or read book Agnes and the Little Key Or Bereaved Parents Instructed and Comforted written by Nehemiah Adams and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agnes and the Key of Her Little Coffin

Download or read book Agnes and the Key of Her Little Coffin written by Nehemiah Adams and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agnes and the Little Key      By Nehemiah Adams   Second Edition

Download or read book Agnes and the Little Key By Nehemiah Adams Second Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Sacra

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1857
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 922 pages

Download or read book Bibliotheca Sacra written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arranging Grief

Download or read book Arranging Grief written by Dana Luciano and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary, since grief both underwrote the social arrangements that supported the nation’s standard chronologies and sponsored other ways of advancing history. Nineteenth-century appeals to grief, as Luciano demonstrates, diffused modes of “sacred time” across both religious and ostensibly secular frameworks, at once authorizing and unsettling established schemes of connection to the past and the future. Examining mourning manuals, sermons, memorial tracts, poetry, and fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Apess, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Susan Warner, Harriet E. Wilson, Herman Melville, Frances E. W. Harper, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Luciano illustrates the ways that grief coupled the affective body to time. Drawing on formalist, Foucauldian, and psychoanalytic criticism, Arranging Grief shows how literary engagements with grief put forth ways of challenging deep-seated cultural assumptions about history, progress, bodies, and behaviors.

Book Catalogue of the Astor Library  continuation

Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library continuation written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early Dead  Or  Transplanted Flowers

Download or read book The Early Dead Or Transplanted Flowers written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Church Herald and Monthly Repository

Download or read book The New Church Herald and Monthly Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Communion of Shadows

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  • Author : Rachel McBride Lindsey
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2017-10-17
  • ISBN : 1469633736
  • Pages : 421 pages

Download or read book A Communion of Shadows written by Rachel McBride Lindsey and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day's parlance, a "mania." This richly illustrated book positions vernacular photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century American religious life. As an empirical tool, photography captured many of the signal scenes of American life, from the gold rush to the bloody battlefields of the Civil War. But photographs did not simply display neutral records of people, places, and things; rather, commonplace photographs became inscribed with spiritual meaning, disclosing, not merely signifying, a power that lay beyond. Rachel McBride Lindsey demonstrates that what people beheld when they looked at a photograph had as much to do with what lay outside the frame--theological expectations, for example--as with what the camera had recorded. Whether studio portraits tucked into Bibles, postmortem portraits with locks of hair attached, "spirit" photography, stereographs of the Holy Land, or magic lanterns used in biblical instruction, photographs were curated, beheld, displayed, and valued as physical artifacts that functioned both as relics and as icons of religious practice. Lindsey's interpretation of "vernacular" as an analytic introduces a way to consider anew the cultural, social, and material reach of religion. A multimedia collaboration with MAVCOR—Center for the Study of Material & Visual Cultures of Religion—at Yale University.

Book Rehabilitating Bodies

Download or read book Rehabilitating Bodies written by Lisa A. Long and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Civil War is one of the most documented, romanticized, and perennially reenacted events in American history. In Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War, Lisa A. Long charts how its extreme carnage dictated the Civil War's development into a lasting trope that expresses not only altered social, economic, and national relationships but also an emergent self-consciousness. Looking to a wide range of literary, medical, and historical texts, she explores how they insist on the intimate relationship between the war and a variety of invisible wounds, illnesses, and infirmities that beset Americans throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and plague us still today. Long shows how efforts to narrate credibly the many and sometimes illusory sensations elicited by the Civil War led writers to the modern discourses of health and history, which are premised on the existence of a corporeal and often critical reality that practitioners cannot know fully yet believe in nevertheless. Professional thinkers and doers both literally and figuratively sought to rehabilitate—to reclothe, normalize, and stabilize—Civil War bodies and the stories that accounted for them. Taking a fresh look at the work of canonical war writers such as Louisa May Alcott and Stephen Crane while examining anew public records, journalism, and medical writing, Long brings the study of the Civil War into conversation with recent critical work on bodily ontology and epistemology and theories of narrative and history.

Book Initials and Pseudonyms

Download or read book Initials and Pseudonyms written by William Cushing and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters   With memoir  Edited by W  Slater

Download or read book Letters With memoir Edited by W Slater written by Adaline Rice PARKER and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters of Ada R  Parker

Download or read book Letters of Ada R Parker written by Adaline Rice Parker and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Monthly Religious Magazine and Theological Review

Download or read book The Monthly Religious Magazine and Theological Review written by Frederic Dan Huntington and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heaven in the American Imagination

Download or read book Heaven in the American Imagination written by Gary Scott Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in? Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no other topic captures the popular imagination quite like heaven. Gary Scott Smith examines how Americans from the Puritans to the present have imagined heaven. He argues that whether Americans have perceived heaven as reality or fantasy, as God's home or a human invention, as a source of inspiration and comfort or an opiate that distracts from earthly life, or as a place of worship or a perpetual playground has varied largely according to the spirit of the age. In the colonial era, conceptions of heaven focused primarily on the glory of God. For the Victorians, heaven was a warm, comfortable home where people would live forever with their family and friends. Today, heaven is often less distinctively Christian and more of a celestial entertainment center or a paradise where everyone can reach his full potential. Drawing on an astounding array of sources, including works of art, music, sociology, psychology, folklore, liturgy, sermons, poetry, fiction, jokes, and devotional books, Smith paints a sweeping, provocative portrait of what Americans-from Jonathan Edwards to Mitch Albom-have thought about heaven.