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Autore |
Stewart Carole Lynn |
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Titolo |
Strange Jeremiahs [[electronic resource] ] : civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois / / Carole Lynn Stewart |
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Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-63694-8 |
0-8263-4681-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Collana |
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Religions of the Americas series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civil religion - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
United States History |
United States Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Stewart studies the writings of three American authors who all helped define civil religion through their expressions of the tradition of the jeremiad, or prophetic judgment of a people for backsliding from their destiny. |
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