There before us : religion, literature, and culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry / [electronic resource]
Lundin, Roger.
Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub.,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Fances 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 -- Afterword / Andrew Delbanco.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Religion in literature.
American literature
American literature
Religion and literature
Religion in literature
American literature
American literature
Religion and literature
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature