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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972117203321

Autore

Wheatley Christopher J. <1955->

Titolo

Thornton Wilder & Amos Wilder : writing religion in twentieth-century America / / Christopher J. Wheatley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2011

ISBN

9780268096694

0268096694

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

818/.5209

Soggetti

Religion in literature

Social values in literature

Social change in literature

Religion and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : brothers in arms -- Historical religious crises in Wilder's early novels -- Coming home to America -- Piety, the individual, and the community -- The appetite for destruction and the obstacles to growth -- Mystery, pluralism, and evolution.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book to explore the relationship between Thornton Wilder's drama and fiction and his brother Amos's scholarship.