{"product_id":"awakening-verse-wendy-raphael-roberts-9780197510278","title":"Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism","description":"In 1740, Benjamin Franklin published the first American edition of \u003cem\u003eGospel Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e, by the eminent Scottish Presbyterian minister Ralph Erskine. The work, already in its fifth British edition, quickly became an American bestseller and remained so throughout the eighteenth century. Franklin was aware of what most scholars of American religion and literature have forgotten -that poetry played a central role in the \"surprising works of God\" that birthed evangelicalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe far-reaching social transformations precipitated by the transatlantic evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century depended upon the development of a major literary form, that of revival poetry. Literary scholars and historians of religion have prioritized sermons, conversion narratives, periodicals, and hymnody. Wendy Roberts here argues that poetry offered a unique capacity to \"diffuse celestial Fervor through the World,\" in the words of the cleric Samuel Davies.\u003cem\u003e Awakening Verse\u003c\/em\u003e is the first monograph to address this large corpus of evangelical poetry in the American colonies, shedding light on important dimensions of eighteenth-century religious and literary culture. Roberts deftly assembles a large, previously unknown archive of immensely popular poems, examines how literary history has rendered this poetic tradition invisible, and demonstrates how a vibrant popular poetics exercised a substantial effect on the landscape of early American religion, literature, and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Raphael Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197510272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197510278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Wendy Raphael Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054752854271,"sku":"9780197510278","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6071439d-6ee5-489b-be44-9cc290c77f60.jpg?v=1685031794","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/awakening-verse-wendy-raphael-roberts-9780197510278","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}