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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History Aufsatzsammlung |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: There before us. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., ©2007 (OCoLC)607924825 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Roger Lundin |
ISBN: | 9780802829634 0802829635 |
OCLC Number: | 68133020 |
Description: | xxii, 250 pages ; 23 cm |
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 Frances 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. |
Responsibility: | edited by Roger Lundin. |
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