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Thornton Wilder & Amos Wilder : writing religion in twentieth-century America / Christopher J. Wheatley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheatley, Christopher J., 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion in literature.
- Social values in literature.
- Social change in literature.
- Religion and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Religion and literature.
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wilder, Thornton.
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975--Religion.
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975--Family.
- Wilder, Amos N. (Amos Niven), 1895-1993.
- Wilder, Amos N.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Thornton Wilder and Amos Wilder
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first book to explore the relationship between Thornton Wilder's drama and fiction and his brother Amos's scholarship.
- Contents:
- Introduction : brothers in arms
- Historical religious crises in Wilder's early novels
- Coming home to America
- Piety, the individual, and the community
- The appetite for destruction and the obstacles to growth
- Mystery, pluralism, and evolution.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268096694
- 0268096694
- OCLC:
- 797817159
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