Strange Jeremiahs : Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. Du Bois /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stewart, Carole Lynn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
Colección:Religions of the Americas series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Du Bois, W. E. B. > (William Edward Burghardt), > 1868-1963 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Edwards, Jonathan, > 1703-1758 > Criticism and interpretation.
Civil religion > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of the Puritan covenant
  • Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community
  • God is no respecter of persons: the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival
  • The "strange revolution" and the aesthetics of grace
  • The second great awakening, the national period, and Melville's American destiny. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities and the formation of the American dilemma
  • A revolutionary marriage deferred
  • The mystery of Melville's darkwoman
  • From "self" to "soul": W.E.B. Du Bois's critical understanding of the ideals of liberal democracy in the new world. Strange Jeremiah: civil religion and the public intellectual
  • Strivings and original sin: the unlovely, plural American soul
  • The talented tenth and colonizing heroes
  • Du Bois's aesthetic of beauty in the new world
  • The irony of the American self.

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