Culture and redemption
Subtitle: religion, the secular, and American literature
By: Tracy Fessenden
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780691049632
Subjects: Secularism -- United States; Christianity and culture -- United States; American literature -- History and criticism; Religion and literature -- United States; United States -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-321) and index
Table of contents: title: Protestantism and the social space of reading; title: Legible dominion : Puritanism's new world narrative; title: Protestant expansion, Indian violence, and childhood death : the New England primer; title: From disestablishment to "consensus" : the nineteenth-century Bible wars and the limits of dissent; title: Conversion to democracy : religion and the American Renaissance; title: Secular fictions; title: From Romanticism to race : Uncle Tom's cabin; title: Mark Twain and the ambivalent refuge of unbelief; title: Secularism, feminism, imperialism : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the progress narrative of U.S. feminism; title: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Catholic closet; title: Afterword: American religion and the future of dissent