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Rappaccini's Children : American Writers in a Calvinist World /

Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story ""Rappaccini's Daughter"" tells of a beautiful girl who has, from birth, absorbed the poison from the flowers of her father's garden. In this allegorical tale of the fallen Garden of Eden, William H. Shurr finds a metaphor for the...

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Autor principal: Shurr, William
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1981.
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Persistence of Calvinism; 3 America's Copernican Revolution; 4 The Revolution Expanded; 5 Death and the Deity; 6 Violence and the Political Order; 7 The Southern Experience; 8 Calvinism and the Tragic Sense; 9 Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. 
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