Culture and redemption : religion, the secular, and American literature / Tracy Fessenden.

Author/creator Fessenden, Tracy
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionx, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects

Contents Protestantism and the social space of reading -- Legible dominion : Puritanism's new world narrative -- Protestant expansion, Indian violence, and childhood death : the New England primer -- From disestablishment to "consensus" : the nineteenth-century Bible wars and the limits of dissent -- Conversion to democracy : religion and the American Renaissance -- Secular fictions -- From Romanticism to race : Uncle Tom's cabin -- Mark Twain and the ambivalent refuge of unbelief -- Secularism, feminism, imperialism : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the progress narrative of U.S. feminism -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's Catholic closet -- Afterword: American religion and the future of dissent.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-321) and index.
LCCN 2006007752
ISBN0691049637 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780691049632 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BR526 .F48 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold