Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. Du Bois
The beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of the Puritan covenant -- Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community -- God is no respecter of persons: the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival -- The "strange revolution&...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Albuquerque
University of New Mexico Press
2010
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Schriftenreihe: | Religions of the Americas series
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Schlagworte: |
Edwards, Jonathan
> Criticism and interpretation
> Melville, Herman
> Du Bois, W. E. B
> Edwards, Jonathan 1703-1758
> Melville, Herman 1819-1891
> Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963
> Civil religion
> History
> United States
> Politics and government
> Fiktionale Darstellung
> Du Bois, William E. B.
> USA
> Kulturelle Identität
> Nationenbildung
> Zivilreligion
> Puritanismus
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Zusammenfassung: | The beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of the Puritan covenant -- Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community -- God is no respecter of persons: the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival -- The "strange revolution" and the aesthetics of grace -- The second great awakening, the national period, and Melville's American destiny. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities and the formation of the American dilemma -- A revolutionary marriage deferred -- The mystery of Melville's darkwoman -- From "self" to "soul": W.E.B. Du Bois's critical understanding of the ideals of liberal democracy in the new world. Strange Jeremiah: civil religion and the public intellectual -- Strivings and original sin: the unlovely, plural American soul -- The talented tenth and colonizing heroes -- Du Bois's aesthetic of beauty in the new world -- The irony of the American self |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | XIV, 375 S. Ill |
ISBN: | 9780826346797 978-0-8263-4679-7 |