John Foxe in America

Discourses of Martyrdom in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century United States

Autor*innen

• Heike Jablonski

Parameter

• 356 Seiten
• 13 Lesestunden

• Lehrbücher
• Universitätslehrbücher

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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culture by delineating traces of John Foxe’s famous martyrology Actes and Monuments in a variety of published and unpublished material.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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017