LEADER 03971nam 2200709 450 001 9910798242903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-9264-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812292640 035 $a(CKB)3710000000614297 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001649298 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16422518 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001649298 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14975377 035 $a(PQKB)10193853 035 $a(OCoLC)944311177 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52818 035 $a(DE-B1597)469682 035 $a(OCoLC)979578203 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812292640 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4540250 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11372435 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL902071 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4540250 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000614297 100 $a20170425h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCast down $eabjection in America, 1700-1850 /$fMark J. Miller 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (232 pages) 225 0 $aEarly American Studies 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8122-4802-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. From Roses to Neuroses --$tChapter 1. Conversion, Suffering, and Publicity --$tChapter 2. Indian Abjection in the Public Sphere --$tChapter 3. The Martyrology of White Abolitionists --$tChapter 4. Masochism, Minstrelsy, and Liberal Revolution --$tEpilogue. Child Pets, Melville's Pip, and Oriental Blackness --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aDerived from the Latin abiectus, literally meaning "thrown or cast down," "abjection" names the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible. In Western religious tradition, to be abject is to submit to bodily suffering or psychological mortification for the good of the soul. In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres. Miller traces the connection between sentiment, suffering, and publication and the role it played in the movement away from church-based social reform and toward nonsectarian radical rhetoric in the public sphere. He focuses on two periods of rapid transformation: first, the 1730's and 1740's, when new models of publication and transportation enabled transatlantic Protestant religious populism, and, second, the 1830's and 1840's, when liberal reform movements emerged from nonsectarian religious organizations. Analyzing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century conversion narratives, personal narratives, sectarian magazines, poems, and novels, Miller shows how church and social reformers used sensational accounts of abjection in their attempts to make the public sphere sacred as a vehicle for political change, especially the abolition of slavery. 410 0$aEarly American studies. 606 $aSuffering$xReligious aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSuffering$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRace awareness$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xChurch history$y18th century 607 $aUnited States$xChurch history$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$2fast 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aSuffering$xReligious aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aSuffering$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aRace awareness$xHistory. 676 $a303.4 700 $aMiller$b Mark Joseph$f1975-$01553122 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798242903321 996 $aCast down$93813434 997 $aUNINA