Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E B.Du Bois |
Author: |
StewartCarole Lynn, |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
Albuquerque |
Published: |
University of New Mexico Press; |
Year of Publication: |
2010 |
Description: |
1 online resource (xiv, 375 p.). |
Series: |
Religions of the Americas series |
Subject: |
Civil religion - History - United States - |
Subject: |
United States - Politics and government - |
Subject: |
United States - History - |
Personal Subject: |
Du Bois - W. E. B. - Criticismand interpretation - |
Personal Subject: |
Melville - Herman - Criticism and interpretation - |
Personal Subject: |
Edwards - Jonathan - Criticism and interpretation - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826346810/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index |
ISBN: |
9780826346810electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
0826346812electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9780826346797hbk. |
ISBN: |
0826346790hbk. |
Content Note: |
The beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of thePuritan covenant -- Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community -- God is no respecter of persons:the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival -- The "strange revolution" and the aesthetics of grace -- The second great awakening, the national period, and Melville's American destiny. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities and the formation of the American dilemma -- A revolutionary marriage deferred -- The mystery of Melville's darkwoman -- From "self" to "soul": W.E.B. Du Bois's critical understanding of the ideals of liberal democracy in the new world. Strange Jeremiah: civil religion and the public intellectual -- Strivings and original sin: the unlovely, plural American soul -- The talented tenth and colonizing heroes -- Du Bois's aesthetic of beauty in the new world-- The irony of the American self |