Nature's nation.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Philosophy, American; United States -- Intellectual life; United States -- Religion
Description: Essays on Puritanism's effect on the religious, philosophic and literary life in America and the tendency to see the U.S. as "nature's nation."
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: The shaping of the American character.; title: Declension in a Bible commonwealth.; title: "Preparation for salvation" in seventeenth-century New England.; title: The Great Awakening from 1740 to 1750.; title: From the covenant to the revival.; title: The insecurity of nature.; title: Theodore Parker: apostasy within liberalism.; title: The location of American religious freedom.; title: Emersonian genius and the American democracy.; title: Thoreau in the context of international romanticism.; title: Melville and transcendentalism.; title: The romantic dilemma in American nationalism and the concept of nature.; title: An American language.; title: The romance and the novel.; title: Sinners in the hands of a benevolent God.