The Hymnal
a reading history
$130.51
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
14 August 2018
Summary
Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion.
It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made?
Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the pra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421425924 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421425920 |
| Author: | Christopher N. Phillips |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
Unlike modern hymnals, which are larger and heavier and more expensively produced, older hymnbooks were affordable and designed to be read. People dog-eared them, wrote notes in them, learned to read with them and gave them as gifts to children and relatives. These homely little volumes, Mr. Phillips rightly contends, filled an important and mostly overlooked role in forging America’s Anglo-Protestant worldview and shaping America’s literary sensibilities.—Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal… continual thought-provoking insights transcending national boundaries.—Timothy Dudley-Smith, The Hymn Society Bulletin
About The Author
Christopher N. Phillips
Christopher N. Phillips is an associate professor of English at Lafayette College. He is the author of Epic in American Culture: Settlement to Reconstruction and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance.
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