@article{1482588,
      recid = {1482588},
      author = {Weiss, Shira Wolosky,},
      title = {The Bible in American poetic culture : community,  conflict, war /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 297 pages).},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {Although the Bible is the foundation of American poetic  tradition, there is no study of the Bible as an ongoing  force in American poetry. Not only a source of imagery,  allusion, rhythm and style, the Bible is central to how  poetry has both shaped and been shaped by American civic,  political, and social history, including issues of  ethnicity, race and gender. Through poetry core issues of  the Bible in American culture emerge in a new light. What  defines America as a nation? What are its historical,  political and religious meanings and direction? Vitally,  how is it that the Bible is at once a shared common text,  binding community, and yet was throughout American culture  also contested, disputed, and politicized as a weapon of  war? This study begins with the Puritans, and goes on to  examine poetry of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, as well  as claims and counterclaims in abolition, slavery, and  women's rights. In doing so it treats both popular and  major writers, including Edward Taylor, Frances Harper,  Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Moore and Gwendoln Brooks,  concluding with Amanda Gorman. Shira Wolosky is Professor  of English and American Studies at the Hebrew University of  Jerusalem, Israel. Previous publications include Emily  Dickinson: A Voice of War (1984), Poetry and Public  Discourse in Nineteenth Century America (2010), and  Feminist Theory across Disciplines: Feminist Community and  American Women's Poetry (2013). Her awards and research  appointments include a Fulbright Fellowship, a Whiting  Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellowships at the  Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, a Tikvah  Fellowship at NYU Law School, and Drue Heinz Visiting  Professorships at Oxford.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1482588},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40106-0},
}