There before us :
There before us : religion, literature, and culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry /
edited by Roger Lundin.
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., c2007.
- xxii, 250 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
9780802829634 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0802829635 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006013770
Religion in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Religion and literature--History.--United States
PS166 / .T47 2007
810.9/382
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.
9780802829634 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0802829635 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006013770
Religion in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Religion and literature--History.--United States
PS166 / .T47 2007
810.9/382