John Foxe in America - Discourses of Martyrdom in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century United States

Heike Jablonski examines how discourses of martyrdom shaped 18th- and 19th-century American culture by delineating traces of John Foxe's famous martyrology Actes and Monuments in a variety of published and unpublished material. The author investigates how a 16th-century book came to have such a lasting influence in the United States and why the martyr figure was so pervasive in American culture.

About the author

Heike Jablonski received her Ph.D. from the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at Heidelberg University. She is now an executive secretary at YMCA Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Heike Jablonski
• Assisted by: Matthia Bauer (Editor), Matthias Bauer (Editor), Stievermann (Editor), Stievermann (Editor), Jan Stievermann (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill Schöningh
• Languages: German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2017
• EAN: 9783506787644
• ISBN: 978-3-506-78764-4
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 233 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 587 g
• Illustrations: 35 SW-Fotos, 2 Tabellen
• Series: Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur; Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies