03971nam 2200709 450 991082859150332120200520144314.00-8122-9264-210.9783/9780812292640(CKB)3710000000614297(SSID)ssj0001649298(PQKBManifestationID)16422518(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001649298(PQKBWorkID)14975377(PQKB)10193853(OCoLC)944311177(MdBmJHUP)muse52818(DE-B1597)469682(OCoLC)979578203(DE-B1597)9780812292640(Au-PeEL)EBL4540250(CaPaEBR)ebr11372435(CaONFJC)MIL902071(MiAaPQ)EBC4540250(EXLCZ)99371000000061429720170425h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrCast down abjection in America, 1700-1850 /Mark J. MillerPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2016.©20161 online resource (232 pages)Early American StudiesIncludes index.0-8122-4802-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction. From Roses to Neuroses --Chapter 1. Conversion, Suffering, and Publicity --Chapter 2. Indian Abjection in the Public Sphere --Chapter 3. The Martyrology of White Abolitionists --Chapter 4. Masochism, Minstrelsy, and Liberal Revolution --Epilogue. Child Pets, Melville's Pip, and Oriental Blackness --Notes --Index --AcknowledgmentsDerived from the Latin abiectus, literally meaning "thrown or cast down," "abjection" names the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible. In Western religious tradition, to be abject is to submit to bodily suffering or psychological mortification for the good of the soul. In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres. Miller traces the connection between sentiment, suffering, and publication and the role it played in the movement away from church-based social reform and toward nonsectarian radical rhetoric in the public sphere. He focuses on two periods of rapid transformation: first, the 1730's and 1740's, when new models of publication and transportation enabled transatlantic Protestant religious populism, and, second, the 1830's and 1840's, when liberal reform movements emerged from nonsectarian religious organizations. Analyzing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century conversion narratives, personal narratives, sectarian magazines, poems, and novels, Miller shows how church and social reformers used sensational accounts of abjection in their attempts to make the public sphere sacred as a vehicle for political change, especially the abolition of slavery.Early American studies.SufferingReligious aspectsUnited StatesHistorySufferingSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryRace awarenessUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesChurch history18th centuryUnited StatesChurch history19th centuryUnited StatesfastCultural Studies.Literature.SufferingReligious aspectsHistory.SufferingSocial aspectsHistory.Race awarenessHistory.303.4Miller Mark Joseph1975-1646815MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828591503321Cast down3994023UNINA