TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coleman,Dawn
TI  - Preaching and the rise of the American novel
T2  - Literature, religion, and postsecular studies
SN  - 9780814212059 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - PS 166  .C65 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Columbus
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Preaching
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Preaching in literature
KW  - Roman
KW  - gnd
KW  - USA
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-283) and index; Creating authority in the pulpit -- The slow rise of the novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The Scarlet Letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- The borrowed robes of Clotel; or, The President's Daughter -- The lingering rivalry: exposing the sermon's limitations in William Dean Howells's The Minister Charge
ER  -