Strange Jeremiahs: civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois
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1. Verfasser: Stewart, Carole Lynn (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 2010
Schriftenreihe:Religions of the Americas series
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 375 p.)
ISBN:0826346812
9780826346810

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