Abstract

1. The American Jeremiad: Politics, Religion, Rhetoric, and History PART I. THREE AMERICAN JEREMIADS 2. Puritan New England and the Foundations of the American Jeremiad 3. Decline, Slavery, and War: The Jeremiad in Antebellum and Civil War America 4. Taking America Back: The Christian Right Narrative of Decline and Renewal PART II. THE JEREMIAD IN AMERICAN CULTURE: NARRATIVE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS 5. The Jeremiad as Narrative: Capacious and Constraining Stories of American Nationhood 6. Constructing a Usable Past: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Golden Age 7. Restorationism versus Pluralism: Traditionalist and Progressive Jeremiads in the American Culture Wars 8. Narratives and National Identity: Toward a More Capacious Jeremiad

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