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Lonesome : the spiritual meanings of American solitude / Kevin Lewis.
Van Pelt Library BJ1499.S6 L49 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Kevin, 1943-
- Series:
- Library of modern religion ; 12.
- Library of modern religion ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Solitude--United States--Religious aspects.
- Solitude.
- Loneliness--United States--Religious aspects.
- Loneliness.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 202 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 Foundations 1
- 2 The Poetic Imagination of Lonesomeness 23
- 3 Lonesomeness in Fiction and Non-Fiction 51
- 4 The Numinous and the Transcendent 79
- 5 Edward Hopper's Luminist Lonesome 109
- 6 Country Lonesome 133
- 7 Epilogue: Therapeutic Lonesomeness 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848850750
- 1848850751
- OCLC:
- 311761479
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