Search Results - "secularism"

Masked Atheism : Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home / by LaMonaca, Maria

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Gothic Riffs : Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 / by Hoeveler, Diane Long

Table of Contents: “…Gothic riffs : songs in the key of secularization -- Gothic mediations : Shakespeare, the sentimental, and the secularization of virtue -- "Rescue operas" and providential deism -- Ghostly visitants : the gothic drama and the coexistence of immanence and transcendence -- Entr'acte. …”
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A History of Icelandic Literature / by Stefán Einarsson, 1897-1972

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Eddic Poetry -- Skaldic Poetry -- Sacred Poetry -- Secular Poetry of the Later Middle Ages -- Literature of the Clergy -- The Earliest Historiographers -- The Kings' Sagas -- The Sagas -- The Family Sagas -- Sturlunga Saga -- Fornalder Sogur -- Romances of Chivalry and Lygi Sogur -- The Reformation -- The Icelandic Renaissance -- Secular Poetry, 1550-1750 -- Enlightenment (Neo-Classicism), 1750-1830 -- National Romanticism, 1830-1874 -- Realism to Neo-Romanticism, 1874-1918 -- Tradition and Revolt Between the World Wars, 1918-1940 -- After World War II, 1940-1956 -- American-Icelandic Writers.…”
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The Sage in Harlem : H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s / by Scruggs, Charles

Table of Contents: “…-- Mencken and "the colored brother" -- The age of satire: the teacher and his pupils -- The dream of the secular city: Mencken, Locke, and the "little American renaissance" -- Et tu Mencken? …”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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The Art of Distances : Ethical Thinking in Twentieth-Century Literature / by Stan, Corina

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Adorno and Barthes on the question of the right (di)stance -- The pathos of distances in "a world of banished people" -- George Orwell's critique of sincerity and the obligation of tactlessness -- The inferno of saviors: notes in the margin of Elias Canetti's lifework -- A socialism of distances, or on the difficulties of wise love: Iris Murdoch's secular community -- "The world in me": the distantiality of everyday life -- In search of a whole self: Benjamin's childhood fragments -- Annie Ernaux's diaries of the outside -- Gunter Grass's century -- Damon Galgut on emptying oneself for sleep -- Conclusion.…”
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The Supplement of Reading : Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…Canon and heresy : Blake's intertextuality -- Untying Blake's secular scripture -- Early texts : "the eye altering alters all" -- (Infinite) absolute negativity : the brief epics -- C. …”
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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / by Briggs, John Channing, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The letter to Mrs. Bixby : secular scripture.…”
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Mind, Body, Motion, Matter : Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives / by McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

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Puritanism and Modernist Novels : From Moral Character to the Ethical Self / by Hinojosa, Lynne W., 1966-

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Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages / by Olson, Glending

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Fictions of Evidence : Witnessing, Literature, and Community in the Late Middle Ages / by Taylor, Jamie K., 1975-

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The Enemy Within : Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic / by Chaitin, Gilbert D.

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Realism's Empire : Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel / by Baker, Geoffrey, 1973-

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