Invisible conversations : religion in the literature of America / Roger Lundin, editor.

Other author Lundin, Roger.
Format Book
Publication InfoWaco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionvii, 224 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
American literature--History and criticism.
Religion in literature.
Religion and literature--United States. --History.
Christianity and literature--United States. --History.

SeriesStudies in Christianity and literature ; 3
Studies in Christianity and literature ; 3. ^A755149
Contents Introduction / by Roger Lundin -- Finding a prose for God: religion and American fiction / Denis Donoghue -- American literature and/as spiritual inquiry / Lawrence Buell -- Variety as religious experience: the poetics of the plain style / Elisa New -- Keeping the metaphors alive: American poetry and transformation / Barbara Packer -- Genres of redemption: African Americans, the Bible, and slavery from Lemuel Haynes to Frederick Douglass / Mark A. Noll -- Balm in Gilead: memory, mourning, and healing in African American autobiography / Albert J. Raboteau -- The race for faith: justice, mercy, and the sign of the cross in African American literature / Katherine Clay Bassard -- Forms of redemption / John Stauffer -- Hamlet without the prince: the role of religion in postwar nonfiction / Alan Wolfe -- "The only permanent state": belief and the culture of incredulity / Andrew Delbanco -- How the church became invisible: a Christian reading of American literary tradition / Stanley Hauerwas and Ralph C. Wood -- "The play of the Lord": on the limits of critique / Roger Lundin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-217) and index.
LCCN 2008029713
ISBN9781602581470 (alk. paper)
ISBN1602581479 (alk. paper)

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