...Donald Weber Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 West, Pynchon, Mailer, and the Jeremiad Tradition Donald Weber If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world...

...James H. Moorhead Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Perry Miller s Jeremiad Against Nineteenth-Century Protestantism James H. Moorhead In the more than two decades since Perry Miller s death, his scholarship has been the subject of numerous appraisals, and the last several years...

... Nonsensical chaos and death into a true new world (p. 139) dramatizing the sacred Sense of God s Word (p. 155). Finally, Johnson s Vanity of Human Wishes unites Jeremiad and Juvenalian satire to displace a mundane myth of vain ...

... unites Jeremiad and Juvenalian satire to displace a mundane myth of vain 522 The South Atlantic Quarterly materialism with a redeeming one compounded of Roman prudentia and the Miltonic inner paradise of spirit. Budick speaks (sometimes cryptically) to readers already well acquainted with the poems he...

..., wins their cash. O countrymen! This surely would abash Our sleeping sires. No clerical rhymer in New England ever penned a more fervent jeremiad. Charles Hansford is a pleasant, even a charming, man to know: he was sure that poetry might be produced when nothing better could be done, and he was sure...

... gentry to the gaming tables run! Scoundrels and sharpers nay, the very scum Of mankind joins our gentry, wins their cash. O countrymen! This surely would abash Our sleeping sires. No clerical rhymer in New England ever penned a more fervent jeremiad. Charles Hansford is a pleasant, even a charming, man...

... and personal. The production of his lifetime includes a single book of poems, a novelette, and a re­ markably overwrought jeremiad of praise to the baleful yet vital life of tenant farmers in the thirties as well as movie scripts and television scenarios, enough movie reviews to fill a number of volumes (two...

... Harold Flye. New York: George Braziller, 1962. Pp. 235. $5.00. James Agee, dead at forty-five, was an author of various, and uneven, means and of paradoxes both literary and personal. The production of his lifetime includes a single book of poems, a novelette, and a re­ markably overwrought jeremiad...

... Moorhead, James H., Perry Miller s Jeremiad Against Nineteenth-Century Protestantism 312 Patterson, Annabel, The Very Name of the Game: Theories of Order and Disorder 519 Patterson, Lee, "No Man His Reson Herde : Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer s Miller, and the Structure of the Canterbury Tales 457...

... years, however, Fletcher began to find relief from his Jeremiad compulsion. The way out, if any, seems to have lain 92 The South Atlantic Quarterly in sinking deep roots into the region of one s origin. In 1929 Fletch­ er contributed an essay on education to I ll Take My Stand, a sym­ posium dominated...

... progeny. Rather than chastising the child for aban­ doning parental ways, in the manner of the jeremiads of the Puritan fathers, they lavished praise on contemporary American values and realities. In effect they pictured the national creed and the socioeconomic order in symbiotic relation; the result...

... evil that the report might doubtless have included, except for the fact that it is an unmeasurable quantity, is the mental anguish of any decently constituted teacher who has to do inefficient work, to skimp his work against his will, in order to get it done at all. But enough of these Jeremiads...

... tradition, but with one of the oldest forms of American writing, the jeremiad, which Sacvan Bercovitch, in The American Jeremiad, has traced from the Puritans and the Transcendentalists through the New Journalists of the 1960s. The latter group includes writers such as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter...

... ritualized, cybercultural counterpart to the African-American phenomenon known as the dozens, in which duelists one-up each other with elaborate, some­ times rhyming gibes involving the sexual exploits of each other s mothers. At their best, flame wars give way to tour-de-force jeremiads Flame Wars 563...

..., admittedly full of social rages. I had written him something that recalled the Harlan nightmare, and it provoked an understandably bitter jeremiad on the state of affairs in California. Starting out about Harlan, he wrote: Every memory of it that slips into my mind causes me to fail mentally! This country...

... and intellectual dishonesty notwithstanding, his critique of colonialism is simultaneously oppositional and embedded; he constructs it from Western Eurocentric discourses simply because those are the dis­ courses he has. This contradiction makes him a more-than-reluctant brico­ leur, a writer of jeremiads...

..., in the antebellum and Civil War periods of social collapse, the rejection by American Renaissance writers of the revolutionary mythos, the almost total re­ jection of the past, and the critical genre of the American jeremiad and its cultural despair as being opposing modes of thought that are equally socially...

...J. Patrick Dobel Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Mail-Order Ethics: Reflections on Irresponsible Political Contributions and the Politics They Finance J. Patrick Dobel Taut jeremiads of imminent moral collapse or moral tyranny accompanied by lurid descriptions of intractable...

... city. His lectures at the university must have been impressive; his notes for them certainly are. But, alongside so much learning, so many jeremiads against 342 The South Atlantic Quarterly progress, liberalism, industrialism, faith in humanity, even joy. His compensations are exiguous or fulsome: he...

... ignorance, from which we are to be rescued by what Graff calls MLA Jeremiads, impassioned defenses of the humanities which have the ritualistic aura of the Sunday rebuke. The theoretical aspect is simply Quin­ tilian s smug answer to the Q question, that whatever humanists are doing at the present...