Invisible conversations : religion in the literature of America / Roger Lundin, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lundin, Roger.

Series:

Studies in Christianity and literature ; 3.

Studies in Christianity and literature ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Religion in literature.

Religion and literature--United States--History.

Religion and literature.

Christianity and literature--United States--History.

Christianity and literature.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 224 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction / by Roger Lundin

Finding a prose for God: religion and American fiction / Denis Donoghue

American literature and/as spiritual inquiry / Lawrence Buell

Variety as religious experience: the poetics of the plain style / Elisa New

Keeping the metaphors alive: American poetry and transformation / Barbara Packer

Genres of redemption: African Americans, the Bible, and slavery from Lemuel Haynes to Frederick Douglass / Mark A. Noll

Balm in Gilead: memory, mourning, and healing in African American autobiography / Albert J. Raboteau

The race for faith: justice, mercy, and the sign of the cross in African American literature / Katherine Clay Bassard

Forms of redemption / John Stauffer

Hamlet without the prince: the role of religion in postwar nonfiction / Alan Wolfe

"The only permanent state": belief and the culture of incredulity / Andrew Delbanco

How the church became invisible: a Christian reading of American literary tradition / Stanley Hauerwas and Ralph C. Wood

"The play of the Lord": on the limits of critique / Roger Lundin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-217) and index.

ISBN:

9781602581470

1602581479

OCLC:

234176018