Strange Jeremiahs : Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
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Strange Jeremiahs : Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
Yazar:
Stewart, Carole.
ISBN:
9780826346810
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1 online resource (392 pages)
Seri:
Religions of the Americas Series
İçerik:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One -- 1: The Travail of thePuritan Covenant -- 2: Original Sin -- 3: God Is No Respecter of Persons -- 4: The "Strange Revolution"and the Aesthetics of Grace -- Part Two -- 5: Pierre -- or, The Ambiguitiesand the Formation of theAmerican Dilemma -- 6: A RevolutionaryMarriage Deferred -- 7: The Mystery of Melville's -- Part Three -- 8: Strange Jeremiah -- 9: Strivings and Original Sin -- 10: The Talented Tenth andColonizing Heroes -- 11: Du Bois's Aesthetic ofBeauty in the New World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Back Cover.
Özet:
Stewart studies the writings of three American authors who all helped define civil religion through their expressions of the tradition of the jeremiad, or prophetic judgment of a people for backsliding from their destiny.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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