Mark J. Miller

Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850 [Early American Studies]

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Hardcover. 8vo. First print. Analyzing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century conversion narratives, personal narratives, sectarian magazines, poems, and novels, Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres. e also demonstrates how church and social reformers used sensational accounts of abjection in their attempts to make the public sphere sacred as a vehicle for political change, especially the abolition of slavery. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Item #711202630

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