The turn around religion in America
Subtitle: literature, culture, and the work of Sacvan Bercovitch
By: edited by Nan Goodman and Michael P. Kramer
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9781409430186; 9781409430193
Subjects: Religion in literature; Ambivalence in literature; Religion and literature; History and criticism; American literature; History
Other titles: Literature, culture, and the work of Sacvan Bercovitch
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: The turn around religion in America / Nan Goodman; title: Universals. Built into the system : where protest lies in Pietro di Donato's Christ in concrete / Margaret Reid; title: Cosmopolitanism and Zoroastrianism in Moby Dick / Cyrus R. K. Patell; title: Miguel Algarín's "Nuyorican angels" of night and the critique of enwhitened idealism / María Deguzmán; title: Body and sprit [sic] in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow and James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Emory Elliott; title: The pious duties of romantic historiography / Giuseppe Nori; title: Religion and the lonely subject : a note on Emerson's idealism / Michael Colarcurcio; title: The puritan in the photograph / Laura Wexler; title: Bad fathering in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Jeanne Campbell Reesman; title: The halachic Judaism of Emerson and Thoreau : a Freudian, Cavellian, and Bercovitchian perspective on the religious conduct of American life and liberty / Emily Miller Budick; title: Biblical typology and the Jewish American imagination / Michael P. Kramer; title: Robert Keayne's Nails, or a mercantilist's view of Christian charity / Nan Goodman; title: Particularities. "The God that was missing" : poetry, divinity, everydayness /  Irene Ramalho Santos; title: Playing God with beauty : from Hawthorne to Hairspray / Wendy Steiner; title: Politics, religion, and some poems about Sacco and Vanzetti / Lawrence Rosenwald; title: Edward Taylor's American Hebraism / Shira Wolosky; title: Depression journalism, social actuality, and the quest for salvation / Morris Dickstein; title: Levinas, ethics, and dissensus in the cinema of redemption / Sam B. Girgus; title: Hell in Mexican Texas : Stephen Crane at the American abyss / J. Javier Rodríguez; title: German, Jewish, American : magic words that define Judaism in the Cincinnati Deborah / Werner Sollors; title: Demythologizing America : Nathanael West and Sacvan Bercovitch / Donald Weber; title: The ironic style of Sacvan Bercovitch / Andrew Dubois; title: Afterword : turn, turn, turn : on Sacvan Bercovitch, Ecclesiastes, and American literary study / Michael P. Kramer.