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Knowing, Seeing, Being Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and the American Typological Tradition / Jennifer L. Leader.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leader, Jennifer L., 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886--Criticism and interpretation.
- Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758--Influence.
- Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758--Criticism and interpretation.
- Christianity and literature--United States--History.
- Christianity and literature.
- Hermeneutics--History.
- Hermeneutics.
- Belief, Problem of (Literature).
- Nature in literature.
- Typology (Theology) in literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Scholars no longer see Jonathan Edwards as the fire-and-brimstone preacher who deemed his parishioners "sinners in the hands of an angry god." Edwards now figures as caring and socially conscious and exerts increased influence as a philosopher of the American school of Protestantism.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a history of the work of typology
- Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan Edwards: a reconsideration; Beauty and the eye of the beholder: being and desire in Jonathan Edwards's natural typology
- Emily Dickinson. Immersed in the reformed hermeneutic: origins of Dickinson's typological imagination; Reading with "compound vision": Emily Dickinson and the nineteenth-century "paper wars" ; "Myself; the term between": Dickinson's typology of split subjectivity
- Marianne Moore. Rightly dividing the word of truth: Marianne Moore in her reformed tradition; "Part terrestrial, part celestial": "the real" and "the actual" in Moore's revisionist typology; "Integration too tough for infraction": being, ethics, and aesthetics in early and late Moore.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-375-1
- OCLC:
- 963638344
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