Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois /

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Glavni autor: Stewart, Carole Lynn
Autor kompanije: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
Serija:Religions of the Americas series.
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Sadržaj:
  • 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.