6. The Rise and Decline of the Victorian Sunday

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. 1. Sunday Gladness, Sunday Gloom 1
5. 2. Sunday in Antiquity 24
6. 3. Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England 55 55
7. 4. Sunday in Eighteenth-Century England and Scotland 84
8. 5. Varieties of Sunday Observance: Boswell and His Contemporaries 109
9. 6. The Rise and Decline of the Victorian Sunday 129
10. 7. Four American Writers and Sunday: Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman 172
11. 8. Sunday Nostalgia, Sunday Despair: Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell 212
12. 9. Sunday Now: Sacred and Profane 248
13. Notes 273
14. Index 299