There Before UsLundin Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2. jan. 2007 - 250 sider Despite the crucial importance of religion in American life, the place of religion in literary studies continues to take a backseat to trendier academic causes. This book helps remedy this deficiency by exploring the place of faith in the lives of writers beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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Religious Indifference in America | 1 |
Thoreaus Imagination | 23 |
Pity and Politics | 49 |
Dickinson and the Conflict | 80 |
The Defense of Slavery | 110 |
American Liberalism and | 172 |
Modernist Poetry | 194 |
Religion and the Environmental Imagination | 216 |
Afterword | 239 |
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African American American Culture American Literature authority Bartleby Bartleby the Scrivener belief Bible biblical Boston called Cambridge century character charity Christ Christian church Civil civil religion claims conception contemporary criticism critique Densher discourse divine Eliot Emerson Emily Dickinson environmental essay example experience fact faith Frances E. W. Harper freethinking gious Harper heaven Henry Henry David Thoreau hermeneutics human imagination Ingersoll interpretation James Jesus landscape Lawrence Buell Letters liberal society Lincoln literary living Lost Cause Mark Twain Marx meaning Melville Melville's ment Merrimack Rivers Merrymusk Milly modern moral narrative Narrator nature nineteenth nineteenth-century philosophy poem poet poetry political proslavery Protestant question Ralph Waldo Emerson religion religious repr Ricoeur Robert saint saintly scripture secular sense sermon Shklar slavery social gospel southern spiritual story T. S. Eliot textual theology things Thoreau thought tion tradition ture unbelief Unitarianism virtues Walden William word writes wrote York