There before us : religion, literature, and culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry

Publication Data

• Title There before us : religion, literature, and culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry
• Contributor Roger Lundin
• Publisher Eerdmans
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Grand Rapids, Mich.
• Language English

Contents

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.

Topics

• Religion in literature
• American literature :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• American literature :: 20th century :: History and criticism
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There before us : religion, literature, and culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry. ISBN 9780802829634. Published by Eerdmans in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.