There before us : religion, literature, and culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry / edited by Roger Lundin. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lundin, Roger.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion in literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Religion and literature--United States--History.

Religion and literature.

Religion in literature--History and criticism--19th century--United States.

American literature--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 250 p. )

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Introduction / Roger Lundin

Signing off : religious indifference in America / Barbara Packer

"Rare and delectable places" : Thoreau's imagination of sacred space at Walden / John Gatta

Charity and its discontents : pity and politics in Melville's fiction / Michael Colacurcio

Nimble believing : Dickinson and the conflict of interpretations / Roger Lundin

Private interpretations : the defense of slavery, nineteenth-century hermeneutics, and the poetry of Fances E.W. Harper / Katherine Clay Bassard

Mark Twain's Lincoln as "man of the border" : religion, free thinking, and the Civil War / Harold K. Bush, Jr

The liberal saint : American liberalism and the problem of character / M.D. Walhout

A homemade heaven : modernist poetry and the social gospel / Gail McDonald

Religion and the environmental imagination in American literature / Lawrence Buell

Afterword / Andrew Delbanco.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph