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A time to laugh : or, Grandpa was a preacher / by Brownlow, Leroy

Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of 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 sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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Displacing the divine the minister in the mirror of American fiction / by Walrath, Douglas Alan, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Compelled believers ; Compulsive believers ; Accommodating believers ; Prudent believers -- Con men in collars and heroes of the cloth : popular images (2). Phony preachers ; Muscular ministers ; Gallant parsons -- Activist preachers and their detractors : popular images (3). …”
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The world of Piers Plowman

Table of Contents: “…III. The voice of the preacher and the heretic -- pt. IV. Moral and miracle : the saint's life and the exemplum -- pt. …”
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Lake Methodism Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780–1830 / by Cragwall, Jasper Albert, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…"Lake Methodism" and the lows of high argument -- "Elocution to the mute" : Anglican authority and the cultural revolt of Methodism -- Wordsworth and the ragged legion : poets, priests, and preachers -- Sage or Sibyl? A lay sermon -- Joanna Southcott's body, and the posthumous life of romantic prophecy -- Resurrection, the new birth, and vital Christianity : the Methodism to Frankenstein's madness.…”
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The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world by Jones, Linda G.

Table of Contents: “…'The good eloquent speaker': profiles of pre-modern Muslim preachers; 8. The audience responds: participation, reception, contestation; Conclusion.…”
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Nineteenth-century Jewish literature a reader /

Table of Contents: “…Leopold Kompert, "The peddler" (1849) -- Alexandre Weill, "Braendel" (1860) -- David Schornstein, "The tithe" (1864) -- Samuel Gordon, "Daughters of Shem : a study in sisters" (1898) -- Grace Aguilar, "The escape : a tale of 1755" (1844) -- Ludwig Philippson, "The three brothers" (1854) -- David Schornstein, "The marranos : a Spanish chronicle" (1861) -- Eugénie Foa, "Rachel; or, The inheritance" (1833) -- Ben-Lévi, "The March 17th decree" (1841) -- Salomon Formstecher, "The stolen son : a contemporary tale" (1859) -- Amy Levy, "Cohen of trinity" (1889) -- Israel Zangwill, "Anglicization" (1902) -- Ben Baruch, "The preacher and the bellows" (1844) -- Ben-Lévi, "The fish and the breadcrumbs" (1846) -- Sara Hirsch Guggenheim, "Aurelie Werner" (1863-64) -- Israel Zangwill, "Transitional" (1899).…”
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