Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel

Author/Contributor(s):	Coleman, Dawn
Publisher:	Ohio State University Press
Date:	07/10/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.