Above the American Renaissance : David S. Reynolds and the Spiritual Imagination in American Literary Studies /

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"Above the American Renaissance takes David S. Reynolds's classic study Beneath the American Renaissance as a model and a provocation to consider how language and concepts broadly defined as spiritual are essential to understanding nineteenth-century American literary culture. In the 1980s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Yothers, Brian, 1975- (Editor ), Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-2021 (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Reynolds, David S., > 1948- > Beneath the American Renaissance.
Spirituality in literature.
Religion in literature.
Religion and literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Religion et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Religion dans la litterature.
Spiritualite dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Religion and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction. Above the American Renaissance
  • Part I Reconstructing the Spiritual and the Secular
  • Chapter 1. Haunted America
  • Chapter 2. "The Spirit of Instructive Investigation"
  • Chapter 3. Secular Melancholy
  • Chapter 4. Whittier and the Mormons
  • Chapter 5. "Will He Perish?"
  • Part II Reconstructing the Scriptures
  • Chapter 6. Higher Reading
  • Chapter 7. The "Art of Attaining Truth" in Moby-Dick
  • Chapter 8. "New-born Bard[s] of the Holy Ghost"
  • Chapter 9. The Other Traditions of Palestine
  • Chapter 10. The Millennial Impulse above the American Renaissance
  • Part III Reconstructing Popular Religion
  • Chapter 11. Hymns by the Fireside
  • Chapter 12. Keeping the Sabbath at Home
  • Chapter 13. "The Nearest Dream Recedes
  • Unrealized"
  • Chapter 14. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Martyrdom
  • Chapter 15. "God Will Give Him Blood to Drink"
  • Afterword. God Above, America Beneath
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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