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

----- 约翰·福克在美国：18世纪和19世纪美国难的话语

ISBN: 9783506787644 出版年：2017 页码：356 Heike Jablonski Brill

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culture by delineating traces of john foxe's famous martyrology actes and monuments in a variety of published and unpublished material.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.