Culture and redemption : religion, the secular, and American literature /
Fessenden, Tracy.
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-321) and index.
Protestantism and the social space of reading -- Legible dominion : Puritanism's new world narrative -- Protestant expansion, Indian violence, and childhood death : the New England primer -- From disestablishment to "consensus" : the nineteenth-century Bible wars and the limits of dissent -- Conversion to democracy : religion and the American Renaissance -- Secular fictions -- From Romanticism to race : Uncle Tom's cabin -- Mark Twain and the ambivalent refuge of unbelief -- Secularism, feminism, imperialism : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the progress narrative of U.S. feminism -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's Catholic closet -- Afterword: American religion and the future of dissent.
Secularism
Christianity and culture
American literature
Religion and literature