• Contents
1. Sunday Gladness, Sunday Gloom
2. Sunday in Antiquity
3. Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
4. Sunday in Eighteenth-Century England and Scotland
5. Varieties of Sunday Observance: Boswell and His Contemporaries
6. The Rise and Decline of the Victorian Sunday
7. Four American Writers and Sunday: Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman
8. Sunday Nostalgia, Sunday Despair: Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell
9. Sunday Now: Sacred and Profane
• Notes
• Index

Stephen Miller is the author of the bestselling book Conversation: A History of a Declining Art.