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Heeding the Call : A Study of Denise Giardina's Novels /
"In Heeding the Call, William Jolliff offers the first book-length discussion of West Virginia writer and activist Denise Giardina, perhaps best known for her novel Storming Heaven, which helped spark renewed interest in the turn-of-the-century Mine Wars. Jolliff proposes that Giardina's f...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2020.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Called to mystery: place, politics, and a life of faith
- Good King Harry: the formation and paradox of a Christian king
- Storming heaven: colonization and the roots of resistance
- The unquiet earth: confronting the coalfield apocalypse
- Saints and villains: conscience, doubt and the call to action
- Fallam's secret: one true sermon
- Emily's ghost: the making of a Giardina hero
- Conclusion: facing the questions, living with mystery.