The peculiar life of Sundays - Miller, Stephen, 1941-; ebrary, Inc. (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008)
Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom -- Sunday in antiquity -- Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland -- Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries -- The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday -- Four American writers and Sunday : Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman -- Sunday nostalgia, Sunday despair : Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell -- Sunday now : sacred and profane.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Sunday; Sabbath; Rest -- Religious aspects; Electronic books