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Culture and Redemption : Religion, the Secular, and American Literature /
Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2011]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. Protestantism and the Social Space of Reading
- CHAPTER ONE. Legible Dominion: Puritanism's New World Narrative
- CHAPTER TWO. Protestant Expansion, Indian Violence, and Childhood Death: The New England Primer
- CHAPTER THREE. From Disestablishment to "Consensus": The Nineteenth-Century Bible Wars and the Limits of Dissent
- CHAPTER FOUR. Conversion to Democracy: Religion and the American Renaissance
- PART TWO: Secular Fictions
- CHAPTER FIVE. From Romanism to Race: Uncle Tom's Cabin
- CHAPTER SIX Mark Twain and the Ambivalent Refuge of Unbelief
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Secularism, Feminism, Imperialism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Progress Narrative of U.S. Feminism
- CHAPTER EIGHT. F. Scott Fitzgerald's Catholic Closet
- AFTERWORD. American Religion and the Future of Dissent
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index