Invisible conversations
Subtitle: religion in the literature of America
By: Roger Lundin, editor.
Contributors: Lundin, Roger.
Series: Studies in Christianity and literature -- 3
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781602581470
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; Religion in literature; Religion and literature -- United States -- History; Christianity and literature -- United States -- History
Description: American Literature offers extraordinary resources for understanding the dynamic role religion has played in the culture of the United States and in the experience of its people. Yet in recent decades, the academic study of that literature has often treated religion as an "invisible domain." In bringing the activities of that domain to light, Invisible Conversations joins the lively debates about religion that continue to animate American life and literature. -- from dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Roger Lundin; title: Finding a prose for God: religion and American fiction / Denis Donoghue; title: American literature and/as spiritual inquiry / Lawtence Buell; title: Variety as religious experience: the poetics of the plain style / Elisa New; title: Keeping the metaphors alive: American poetry and transformation / Barbara Packer; title: Genres of redemption: African Americans, the Bible, and slavery from Lemuel Haynes to Frederick Douglass / Mark A. Noll; title: Balm in Gilead: memory, mourning, and healing in African American autobiography / Albert J. Raboteau; title: The race for faith: justice, mercy, and the sign of the cross in African American literature / Katherine Clay Bassard; title: Forms of redemption / John Stauffer; title: Hamlet without the prince: the role of religion in postwar non-fiction / Alan Wolfe; title: "The only permanent state": belief and the culture of incredulity / Andrew Delbanco; title: How the church became invisible: a Christian reading of American literary tradition / Stanley Hauerwas and Ralph C. Wood; title: "The play of the Lord": on the limits of critique / Roger Lundin.