God & the American writer / Alfred Kazin.

Author/creator Kazin, Alfred
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Description272 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Variant title God and the American writer
Contents Hawthorne and his Puritans -- Emerson and the moral sentiment: we are as gods -- Christians and their slaves (Harriet Beecher Stowe and others) -- Melville in the Holy Land -- Walt Whitman: I am the man -- Lincoln: the Almighty has his own purpose -- Emily Dickinson: the alone to the alone -- William James: rescuing religion -- Mark Twain: the American funnywan who put God on trial -- T. S. Eliot: the pilgrim from St. Louis -- Robert Frost: the survival of the fittest -- Faulkner: God over the South.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 97002993
ISBN0394549686

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS166 .K39 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold