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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1. Verfasser: Stewart, Carole Lynn (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 2010
Schriftenreihe:Religions of the Americas series
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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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIV, 375 S.
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ISBN:9780826346797
978-0-8263-4679-7