The Hymnal : A Reading History /
"Christopher N. Phillips' The Hymnbook offers the first extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text, rather than one used solely for singing. His book demonstrates the ways that hymnbooks were used for individual expression and even the forming of corporate identity. He refram...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: looking for hymns
- Introduction: a reader's hymnbook
- Interlude 1: the wide, wide world of hymns
- Church
- How hymnbooks made a people
- How to fight with hymnbooks
- Hymnbooks at church
- Giving hymnbooks, and what the hymnbook gives
- Devotion and the shape of the hymnbook
- Interlude 2: Philadelphia, 1844
- School
- Reading the title clear: hymnbooks and literacy learning
- How hymnbooks made children's literature
- How hymns remade schoolbooks
- Singing as reading; or, a tale of two sacred harps
- Interlude 3: henry ward beecher takes note
- Home
- Did poets write hymns?
- How poems entered the hymnbook
- The return of the private hymnbook
- Emily dickinson's hymnody of privacy
- Epilogue: the hymnological decade
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index.


