Buch, Deutsch, Band 36, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 587 g
Discourses of Martyrdom in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century United States
Buch, Deutsch, Band 36, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 587 g
Reihe: Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur
ISBN: 978-3-506-78764-4
Verlag: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh
Heike Jablonski examines how discourses of martyrdom shaped 18th- and 19th-century American culture by delineating traces of John Foxe’s famous martyrology Actes and Monuments in a variety of published and unpublished material. The author investigates how a 16th-century book came to have such a lasting influence in the United States and why the martyr figure was so pervasive in American culture.