There before us religion, literature, and culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry / edited by Roger Lundin.

Other author Lundin, Roger.
Other author EBSCO Publishing (Firm)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoGrand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub.,
Descriptionxxii, 250 p. ; 23 cm.
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Subjects
Religion in literature.
American literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Religion and literature--United States. --History.

Contents Introduction / Roger Lundin -- Signing off : religious indifference in America / Barbara Packer -- "Rare and delectable places" : Thoreau's imagination of sacred space at Walden / John Gatta -- Charity and its discontents : pity and politics in Melville's fiction / Michael Colacurcio -- Nimble believing : Dickinson and the conflict of interpretations / Roger Lundin -- Private interpretations : the defense of slavery, nineteenth-century hermeneutics, and the poetry of Fances E.W. Harper / Katherine Clay Bassard -- Mark Twain's Lincoln as "man of the border" : religion, free thinking, and the Civil War / Harold K. Bush, Jr -- The liberal saint : American liberalism and the problem of character / M.D. Walhout -- A homemade heaven : modernist poetry and the social gospel / Gail McDonald -- Religion and the environmental imagination in American literature / Lawrence Buell.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2006013770
ISBN9780802829634 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0802829635 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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