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God & the American writer

A series of essays on major American poets, novelists, and statesmen exploring "what the meaning of God has been for American writers, and how those writers ... have expressed it."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1997
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997
Criticism, interpretation, etc
272 pages ; 25 cm
9780394549682, 0394549686
36498823
PRELUDE: These Strange Minds3(21)
1. Hawthorne and His Puritans
24(16)
2. Emerson and the Moral Sentiment: We Are as Gods
40(17)
3. Christians and Their Slaves (Harriet Beecher Stowe and Others)
57(29)
4. Melville in the Holy Land
86(21)
5. Walt Whitman: I Am the Man
107(13)
6. Lincoln: The Almighty Has His Own Purposes
120(22)
7. Emily Dickinson: The Alone to the Alone
142(19)
8. William James: Rescuing Religion
161(15)
9. Mark Twain: The American Funnyman Who Put God on Trial
176(18)
10. T. S. Eliot: The Pilgrim from St. Louis
194(21)
11. Robert Frost: The Survival of the Fittest
215(19)
12. Faulkner: God over the South
234(20)
AFTERWORD254(7)
INDEX261
Includes index