The peculiar life of Sundays /

Miller, Stephen, 1941-

The peculiar life of Sundays / Stephen Miller. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (310 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-298) and index.

Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom -- Sunday in antiquity -- Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland -- Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries -- The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday -- Four American writers and Sunday : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- Sunday nostalgia, Sunday despair : Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell -- Sunday now : sacred and profane.

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Sunday.
Sabbath.
Rest--Religious aspects.
RELIGION--Holidays--Christian.
Rest--Religious aspects.
Sabbath.
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