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I contend that the novel's "inner logic" (to borrow Damrosch's phrase) is based on the sermon, specifically the Puritan jeremiad sermon. I place Roxana within the context of Defoe's other late works to subdue the notion that Roxana represents a dead end for Defoe, particularly concerning the moral content of his writing.
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Jeremiad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in poetry, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and ...
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[Ständepredigt, puritan sermon, 'letter sermon', prayer-day sermon (jeremiad), festive sermons, Heiligenpredigt, funeral sermon, emblematic sermon, concetto sermon, gerundianismo, court sermon] ; 8 Oral Traditions ;
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Typically confined to a type of sermon, the jeremiad includes, according to Perry Miller, “fast-day and election sermons” with one standard theme: that “New England is steadily declining from the high purity of the founders” (23). Sacvan Bercovitch elucidates Miller’s definition more fully in his American...
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Rivers, Cheryl, "The Jeremiad as Political Sermon," in Amérique révolutionnaire, edited by Jean Béranger and Jean-Claude Barat, Bordeaux-Talence: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, 1976...
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